freight carnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfreɪt ˌkɑːr//ˈfreɪt ˌkɑːr/US UK wagon a large wheeled container for transporting goods, that is pulled by a train
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Railways: trains & parts of trains
- air brake
- baggage car
- bogie
- boiler
- bullet train
- choo-choo
- coach
- commuter train
- couchette
- diesel
- emergency cord
- intercity
- maglev train
- Pullman
- rolling stock
- shunt
- shuttle
- sleeping car
- truck
- wagon-lit
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Examples from literature
- A line of freight cars, two miles in length, stood upon the railway.
- For the freight cars of that day, ten tons made a load, and with the light locomotives and iron rails then in use, twenty or thirty cars made a full train.
- He found a pile of old bagging in one end of the freight car and sat down to rest.
- The coach in which Henry sat was attached to the end of a long string of freight cars.
- The three of them walked down the tracks where the freight cars had stood before being hauled away.