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Noun: railroad car
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: railway carriage)
  1. A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
    "three railroad cars had jumped the rails";
    - car, railcar, railway car [Brit, Cdn], railway carriage [Brit, Cdn], bogie [Asia]

Derived forms: railroad cars

Type of: wheeled vehicle

Part of: railroad train [N. Amer], railway train [Brit, Cdn], train

Encyclopedia: Railroad car