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coal car

noun

  1. a railroad car designed to carry coal.
  2. a car for hauling coal in or from a mine.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coal car1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Example Sentences

Seeing the men collected in such numbers around a coal car, they approached, and heard the last half of this inflammatory speech.

But the boys were not so successful as they had hoped to be in boarding the train and were able to get into only an open coal-car.

So when it wanted to puff smoke and go fast it told its engineer and he put some coal in the coal car.

To ride a coal car to safety, without a single man pursuing him—to where?

All we've got to do is to dig trenches on each side of our coal car tracks and let the water run out by force of gravitation.

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