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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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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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rail-car
A car for transporting passengers on rail-roads.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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