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Car
Car, Cāris, v. Caria, I. B. 1.
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A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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Car
·noun The cage of a lift or elevator.
II. Car ·noun A floating perforated box for living fish.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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car
A north-country word, denoting any swampy land surrounded by inclosures, and occasionally under wate...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Rail
·vt To rail at.
II. Rail ·vt To range in a line.
III. Rail ·vt To move or influence by railing.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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rail
n.
common English birdname. There aremany varieties in New Zealand and Australia, especially in the...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rail
A piece of timber, cleft, hewed, or sawed, inserted in upright posts for fencing. The common rails a...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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rail
a revel, a country wake. Devon.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Car mile
·add. ·- A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the averag...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Car mileage
·add. ·- Car miles collectively.
II. Car mileage ·add. ·- The amount paid by one road the use of ca...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Car wheel
·- A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Grip car
·add. ·- A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Motor car
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Motorcar>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Observation car
·add. ·- A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pullman car
·- A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car;
— often shortened to Pullman.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Touring car
·add. ·- An automobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Trolley car
·add. ·- A motor car to which the current is conveyed by means of a trolley.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Beth-car
the house of the lamb
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
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Beth-car
Sheep-house, a place to which the Israelites pursued the Philistines west from Mizpeh (1 Sam. 7:11)....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Car Court
In West Smithfield (Strype, 1755-Boyle, 1799).
"Card Court "in Strype.
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Car Square
West out of Moor Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Horwood, 1799-O.S. 1848-51).
Former name : "Car...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Car Yard
1) See White Horse Yard, Seething Lane; also Car Square.
2) Out of Redoross Street, in Cripplegate ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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car-hand
the left hand. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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car-sick
the kennel, from CAR and SIKE, a furrow or gutter ; q. the Cart-gutter. Yorks.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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T rail
·- ·see under <<T>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Third rail
·add. ·- An electric railway using such a rail.
II. Third rail ·add. ·- The third rail used in the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Water rail
·- Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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slip-rail
n.
part of a fence so fitted that itcan be removed so as to serve as a gate. Used also for thegatew...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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weka, rail
n.
See weka.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to rail it
To travel by rail-road.
From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bow-rail
A rail round the bows.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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breast-rail
The upper rail of the balcony; formerly it was applied to a railing in front of the quarter-deck, an...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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false rail
A thin plank fayed at the head-rails as a strengthener.
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forecastle-rail
The rail extended on stanchions across the after-part of the forecastle-deck in some ships.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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pedestal-rail
A rail about two inches thick, wrought over the foot-space rail, and in which there is a groove to s...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sheer-rail
The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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top-rail
A rail supported on stanchions across the after-part of each of a ship's tops.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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waist-rail
The channel-rail or moulding of the ship's side.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Third-rail system
·add. ·- A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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foot-space-rail
The rail that terminates the foot of the balcony, in which the balusters step, if there be no pedest...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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post-and-rail tea
slang name for strong bush-tea: socalled because large bits of the tea, or supposed tea, floatabout ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris