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platform car
noun
- a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of platform car1
An Americanism dating back to 1835–45
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Example Sentences
The band from its station on a platform car boomed "Hail to the Chief," the engine whistle screaming an obligato.
From Project Gutenberg
On the platform car he found the soldiers and their commander sitting silent and unconcerned as before.
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On the platform car he found the soldiers and their commander sitting silent and imconcerned as before.
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The boiler of the Tom Thumb was built of gun barrels and shaped like a huge bottle standing upright upon a simple platform car.
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He had a rifled cannon mounted on a platform car, with which he expected to do great execution.
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