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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A railroad car designed for carrying freight.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A railroad-car for carrying freight, commonly a box-car. Called in Great Britain a goods-wagon or goods-van.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US a railway wagon for carrying goods

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a railway car that carries freight

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