| 单词 | house car |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse car house car n. chiefly U.S. (a) an enclosed railway car for freight, a boxcar (now rare); (b) a motor vehicle equipped with living accommodation, esp. a car or truck which has been modified to provide this (now chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > closed boxcar1831 van1837 house car1838 side-door Pullman1887 1838 Rep. Surv. Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road App. D There will be other kinds of cars used than the house car, but they need not be noticed in these estimates. 1896 Autocar 29 Aug. 518/2 In the near future, we are likely to have large and decent house-cars. 1916 Traffic World 27 May 1093/2 A shipment destined to a Willamette Valley point is..reloaded into a house car. 1948 Billboard 10 Jan. 58/3 Lowe has bought a Chevrolet truck and is building a house car out of it. 2001 D. Poyer Fire on Waters xix. 256 He napped at the stove for two hours, then went outside and hauled himself up into an empty house car bound east. 2002 Public Historian 24 103 Other early methods [of creating a motorhome] included modifying an automobile into a house car and adding a camper shell on the bed of a pickup truck. < as lemmas |
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