Word info Synonyms

railway car

Noun

Meaning

a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Examples

If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love. Anthony Trollope

three cars had jumped the rails Source: Internet

A special railway car called a dynamometer car coupled behind the locomotive keeps a continuous record of the drawbar pull exerted, and the speed. Source: Internet

BCCS operated a fleet of 14 passenger ships made up of a number of Princess ships, pocket versions of the famous oceangoing Empress ships along with a freighter, three tugs and five railway car barges. Source: Internet

He left the White House for the last time on September 5, traveling in a specially cushioned railway car; a spur line to the Franklyn Cottage, a seaside mansion given over to his use, was built in a night by volunteers. Source: Internet

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms