Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A train of freightcars. Called in Great Britain a goods-train.

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Examples

  • The testimony of his team-mates, even so, suggests the coming man is arriving at freight-train speed.

    England set to unleash their secret weapon Manu Tuilagi on Wales 2011

  • See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.

    A Must-See Movie 2009

  • See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.

    A Must-See Movie 2009

  • See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.

    A Must-See Movie 2009

  • See a roundup of the week's best photos, from a rainbow in Prague, a freight-train collision in Russia and a protest in Ukraine.

    Emerging Europe: The Week in Photos 2011

  • I might be walking down the track to the water-tank to lie in wait for a passing freight-train, when I would chance upon a bunch of "alki-stiffs."

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  • See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.

    A Must-See Movie 2009

  • See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.

    A Must-See Movie 2009

  • All of this goes by with good momentum, since you can read this novel, or at least I read it, at freight-train speed, taking in one scene quickly and rushing on to the next, happy in the end that a novel so replete with misery can turn out to deliver so much reading pleasure.

    Book Review: Lichtenstein's 'Lost' 2010

  • And thus began his descent into madness, as he is now hunted by walking death itself, in the form of Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), the most frightening freight-train of a killer since the shark in Jaws.

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