Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun On a railroad, a box-car or platform-car provided with track-repairing and wrecking tools, for use in clearing tracks, repairing bridges, etc.; a wrecking-car.
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Examples
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He always had a task of some other kind on hand which he used as an excuse, and, as he was an expert cement-mixer and knew just how to load and unload the tool-car, nothing was ever said to him.
The Mighty Burke 1911
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It was only the passing of a tool-car in the subway underneath the cemetery, and the hammering of a workman at a forge in a niche of the tunnel.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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Last, and most interesting of all, came the tool-car, which was divided by partitions into three rooms.
Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy Kirk Munroe 1890
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