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coal car
noun
- a railroad car designed to carry coal.
- 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.
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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.
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So when it wanted to puff smoke and go fast it told its engineer and he put some coal in the coal car.
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To ride a coal car to safety, without a single man pursuing him—to where?
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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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