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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