Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A railroad car.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A self-propelled
railroad vehicle for passengers. - noun Any
railway carriage orwagon , arailroad car .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word railcar.
Examples
-
Not only the pick up portfolios, but to place that long term railcar order at the right time.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
-
Not only the pick up portfolios, but to place that long term railcar order at the right time.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
-
Not only the pick up portfolios, but to place that long term railcar order at the right time.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
-
There, at the Valley Station, I climb into a bright red, parallelogram-shaped railcar designed to "lean" uphill and hang on, back pressed against the seat, for the delightful horror of a thirty-minute ascent.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
-
Take a train to Princeton Junction and, from there, take the “Dinky” railcar to Princeton, right by the campus.
-
If you ride on a railcar of the New York MTA, it most likely started its life in Canada and completed in New York State.
Nicholas Ostroy: Economic Recovery From the North Nicholas Ostroy 2011
-
If you ride on a railcar of the New York MTA, it most likely started its life in Canada and completed in New York State.
Nicholas Ostroy: Economic Recovery From the North Nicholas Ostroy 2011
-
There, at the Valley Station, I climb into a bright red, parallelogram-shaped railcar designed to "lean" uphill and hang on, back pressed against the seat, for the delightful horror of a thirty-minute ascent.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland Richard Bangs 2011
-
If you ride on a railcar of the New York MTA, it most likely started its life in Canada and completed in New York State.
Nicholas Ostroy: Economic Recovery From the North Nicholas Ostroy 2011
-
If you ride on a railcar of the New York MTA, it most likely started its life in Canada and completed in New York State.
Nicholas Ostroy: Economic Recovery From the North Nicholas Ostroy 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.