coal car

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of coal car¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

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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