Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In railroads, a car fitted with bunks and a kitchen and dining-room, or designed either for lodgings or for serving meals: used by the crew of a construction-train or by a wrecking-crew.

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  • When they returned, ten days later, however, they brought solid and visible proof in the shape of a trainload of building materials and a crowd of Italian laborers, who established themselves in a boarding-car on

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

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