coal car
noun
a railroad car designed to carry coal.
a car for hauling coal in or from a mine.
Origin of coal car
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
Words nearby coal car
coagulum,
coahuila,
coak,
coal,
coal ball,
coal car,
coal cutter,
coal field,
coal gas,
coal heaver,
coal hod
Example sentences from the Web for coal car
In reality it was a coal-car, bearing in one end a crouching figure and a crutch.
Derrick Sterling |Kirk MonroeHe walked to the suburbs, and at nightfall he scrambled up the side of a coal-car in a train slowly moving westward.
Tales From Bohemia |Robert Neilson Stephens