Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of car used for transporting miners up and down the steeply inclined shafts of some mines on Lake Superior. Compare
man-engine .
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Examples
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Whenever he expressed the concern that the man-car (ph) had been still on the tracks and it was OK, they had actually discovered footsteps from the car.
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Certainly, the governor sounded more optimistic when they found out that the man-car (ph) or the man-trip (ph) was intact.
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The Okie sitting beside me never spoke when he drove; he stayed lost in a man-car reverie.
Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994
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