baggage car

a car of a passenger train in which luggage, trunks, etc., are carried.

QUIZZES

Fend Off Sciolism With This Word Of The Day Quiz

Are you the Cinderella of this week’s quiz? Test your memory on the words and definitions from March 23–29.

Question 1 of 7

schlep

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

But in the morning when Jimmy, pale and sickly, climbed down from the baggage-car, there was no Smokey to meet or greet him.
The Boy Scouts Book of Stories|Various
It was three months before they pulled the baggage-car out of that tunnel, and then they had to use dynamite.
The Modern Railroad|Edward Hungerford
And then, not looking up, he went to the baggage-car and pulled his two prisoners out.
The Ranchman|Charles Alden Seltzer
Its passengers, and everybody connected with it, had either gone up town or joined the curious throng about the baggage-car.
Campmates|Kirk Munroe

He has the strangest machines in the baggage-car I ever saw in my life.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth|John Muir