platform car

noun

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45

The band from its station on a platform car boomed "Hail to the Chief," the engine whistle screaming an obligato.

On the platform car he found the soldiers and their commander sitting silent and unconcerned as before.

On the platform car he found the soldiers and their commander sitting silent and imconcerned as before.

The boiler of the Tom Thumb was built of gun barrels and shaped like a huge bottle standing upright upon a simple platform car.

He had a rifled cannon mounted on a platform car, with which he expected to do great execution.

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