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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In car-building, a special type of gondola car or hopper-car, used for carrying iron or other ores. See hopper-car.

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Examples

  • No wonder that Mrs. Spillane seemed terrified as they helped her into the ore-car — so Jerry thought, as he gazed into the apparently fathomless gulf beneath her.

    The Banks of the Sacramento 2010

  • Only now there were ore-car tracks leading down into it.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • Only now there were ore-car tracks leading down into it.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • He rode an ore-car a horizontal distance of approximately eight miles to the brilliantly-illuminated cavern which was the Station of the Twelfth and lowest level.

    First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • No wonder that Mrs. Spillane seemed terrified as they helped her into the ore-car so Jerry thought, as he gazed into the apparently fathomless gulf beneath her.

    The Banks of the Sacramento 1922

  • No wonder that Mrs. Spillane seemed terrified as they helped her into the ore-car — so Jerry thought, as he gazed into the apparently fathomless gulf beneath her.

    The Banks of the Sacramento 1904

  • No wonder that Mrs. Spillane seemed terrified as they helped her into the ore-car -- so Jerry thought, as he gazed into the apparently fathomless gulf beneath her.

    Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169 Jack London 1896

  • No wonder that Mrs. Spillane seemed terrified as they helped her into the ore-car -- so Jerry thought, as he gazed into the apparently fathomless gulf beneath her.

    Dutch Courage and Other Stories Jack London 1896

  • As the two men advanced deeper into the drift, an occasional ore-car, pushed by its panting human team, rumbled heavily past, while every now and then came dull, tremulous shocks like those of an earthquake.

    The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Kirk Munroe 1890

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