Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Freight train part ", 6 letters:
boxcar

Alternative clues for the word boxcar

Word definitions for boxcar in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A line of empty boxcars, ready to deliver or receive their legions of sleepers. ▪ A thin steel cord was bolted to the beam that supported the boxcar roof. ▪ And if these boxcars specially loaded were not so marked, where might ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, American English, from box (n.1) + car .

Usage examples of boxcar.

Bums screwing in boxcars, women gang-banged in the weeds, a girl of eight raped, and then the rapist kicked half to death by other bums and rolled out of the moving train.

The cowcatcher lifted up the rearmost boxcar, catapulting the vehicle high enough to scrape along the top of the boiler and shear the lamp, smokestack, steam dome, and bell clean off the locomotive.

The train was stopped on a siding outside the Klamath Falls switchyard, a stretch of track that ran straight as an avenue between ranks of tall spruce, and as Billy walked alongside it, peering into the open boxcars, he noticed a number of peculiarities.

Then he sent it flying over his shoulder with an elegant swing, smacked his lips and let himself subside onto the straw that covered the floor of the boxcar.

Most of the bullets were fired at the boxcars, which the rebels fondly imagined contained a fortune in plunder that was being denied them.

It was hauling a train of boxcars that rattled and swayed under the moonlit smoke.

The engine had stopped a few yards short of the bridge over Broad Run, while, fifty yards behind, the last dozen boxcars still stood upright on the undamaged track.

Truslow appeared beside Starbuck and nodded toward the stalled boxcars, where the twin red lamps still glowed to reflect on the steel rails.

There was a passenger car behind the tender, and screams sounded from the chaos as the boxcars crashed in behind.

The last boxcars stopped upright in the depot itself, while deep among the wreckage at the front of the train a fierce fire started to burn.

Between the huge warehouses were weed-strewn rail spurs where more materials were stored in boxcars and where long, low gondola cars carried brand-new field guns.

Horse, only to plunge into the stacks of boxes and barrels and crates that were piled in the vast, dim warehouse and inside the adjacent boxcars and wagons.

The daylight was fading, its twilight obscured by the myriad of fires that burned among the wagons and boxcars, and Starbuck expected imminent orders to move away from the fiery smoke pillars that were surely serving as beacons to draw every Northern soldier within twenty miles.

As they grew older they became bolder, rolling drunks and extorting protection money from local businessmen, even looting boxcars in the local freight yards and battling other juvenile gangs.

For the last time, the tents had been folded and tied and shoved into wooden racks in their trucks, the bleachers collapsed and rolled into the boxcars, the animals in their cages and trailers pushed along the platform onto the flatcars and covered with canvas, the concession stands and cook shack dismantled and hauled away.