Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house or depot for freight.
- noun Synonyms Station, etc. See
depot .
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Examples
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A hole had previously been made in the metal gutter and canopy of the freight-house, by an experienced roofer, and in the freight platform underneath, and, as soon as the bent had been dropped into position, it was firmly drifted to the foot-blocks, previously described, and the excavation made for them was filled with concrete well rammed about the blocks and rounded off 6 in. above the surface of the ground.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke
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The framing was done south of the line of the trestle and west of the freight-house.
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke
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The freight-house door was open and Walky Dexter had loaded his wagon and was ready to drive up town; but Josephus was headed down the dock.
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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About twelve o'clock that night we held a council of war, which ended in our running the train into the out freight-house.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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Making his way to the wharf he curled up on some bags in front of the freight-house door.
The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long
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And twenty minutes after he returned with the freight-house foreman and several freight hands, armed, and with lanterns.
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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"I've got to go down anyway and check over some stuff for us at the freight-house so it might as well be now."
El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914
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` ` While working at Stratford Junction, '' he says, ` ` I was told by one of the freight conductors that in the freight-house at Goodrich there were several boxes of old broken-up batteries.
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One was the usual station and freight-house; the other, a neat cottage a stone's-throw away, was, I found, the dwelling of the station-agent.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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Bales, crates, boxes, jars, carboys, frails, cases, and packages flew into them from the freight-house as though the cars had been magnets and they iron filings.
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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