Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A railroad-car built for heavy loads and high speed, and used for carrying the baggage of the passengers on a train.
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Examples
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When the train arrived at Glen Ellen, in the Valley of the Moon, it was Harley Kennan himself, at the side-door of the baggage-car, who caught hold of Michael and swung him to the ground.
CHAPTER XXXV 2010
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In Chicago, he was loaded upon a track, carted through the roaring streets of the vast city, and put into another baggage-car which was quickly in motion in continuation of the eastward journey.
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If you are so fortunate as to find a man standing at the door of the baggage-car, he attaches copper plates to your trunks, with a number and the name of the place you are going to upon them, giving you labels with corresponding numbers.
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The station agent hoisted a dead calf aboard the baggage-car.
Main Street 2004
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Penetrating the baggage-car, they pillaged it, throwing the trunks out of the train.
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There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he would never have succeeded in unscrewing the yoking-bar, had not a violent concussion jolted this bar out.
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In the arid wastes they were served from the baggage-car with beans and bacon that at first he was unable to eat — he dined scantily on some milk chocolate distributed by a village canteen.
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He could be sent as a corpse is sent, by paying the rate of a fare and a half and stowing him in the baggage-car with trunks and dogs.
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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They loaded Craddock on a truck when the train from the west whistled, trundled him down the platform and posted him ready to load in the baggage-car, attended by a large, jubilant crowd.
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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Only the station agent was in sight, pulling a truck with three trunks on it to the spot where he estimated the baggage-car would stop.
Trail's End George W. Ogden
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