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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freight car
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After jumping nimbly from the freight car she closed the door, picked up her holdall, and hurried towards the fence.
▪ In the foreground stood a lone, empty railway freight car.
▪ It smashed against the rusted freight car behind her, shattering the glass exterior and buckling the sensitive anode.
▪ It was stencilled in white paint on the freight car fourth from the front.
▪ The bait, in the form of the unlocked freight car, had been taken.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freight car

Freight \Freight\ (fr[=a]t), a. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods.

Freight car. See under Car.

Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train.

Freight car

Car \Car\, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. Chariot.]

  1. A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.

  2. A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. [U. S.]

    Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a goods wagon; a platform car a goods truck; a baggage car a van. But styles of car introduced into England from America are called cars; as, tram car. Pullman car. See Train.

  3. A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic].

    The gilded car of day.
    --Milton.

    The towering car, the sable steeds.
    --Tennyson.

  4. (Astron.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.

    The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car.
    --Dryden.

  5. The cage of a lift or elevator.

  6. The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.

  7. A floating perforated box for living fish. [U. S.]

    Car coupling, or Car coupler, a shackle or other device for connecting the cars in a railway train. [U. S.]

    Dummy car (Railroad), a car containing its own steam power or locomotive.

    Freight car (Railrood), a car for the transportation of merchandise or other goods. [U. S.]

    Hand car (Railroad), a small car propelled by hand, used by railroad laborers, etc. [U. S.]

    Horse car, or Street car, an omnibus car, draw by horses or other power upon rails laid in the streets. [U. S.]

    Palace car, Drawing-room car, Sleeping car, Parlor car, etc. (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers. [1913 Webster] ||

Wiktionary
freight car

n. (context US English) a railway wagon for carrying goods

WordNet
freight car

n. a railway car that carries freight

Usage examples of "freight car".

Or at Rachael, or the one who had wept behind the locked gates of the rep train's rattling freight car.

Under their canopies, like a pair of black flying reptiles out of the Mesozoic era about to attack a galloping Sphinx, they swung over the east levee and then made a tight corkscrew turn toward the approaching ship, timing their descent to come from astern for their landing, much like a hobo running from a field onto a railroad track to catch the last freight car of a train.

Wong glanced down at the steel rails lying directly below and between the rear of the last freight car and the concrete stop barrier.

Will his record do justice to that journey in a freight car, begun on June 12, 1945?

Without hesitation, he spun the wheel on the freight car that locked the front brakes.

But he sees the white terrorized face of Madame'Rosen, Who is staring out of the freight car at the cartons, as if her life hung on what happened to them.