Car mile | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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mile
mile, mīlēsĭmus, etc., v. mille, millesimus, etc. ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
Mile
·noun A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles ...

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Mile
(from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of 1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
mile
Often in the singular with a ntlnleral, instead of the plural miles. Mr. Hartshorne, in his Glossary...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
mile
The statute mile is 5280 feet; but that used at sea, termed the mean nautic mile, consists of 6075·6...

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Mile
a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards-4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of an English...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Car
Car, Cāris, v. Caria, I. B. 1. ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
Car
·noun The cage of a lift or elevator. II. Car ·noun A floating perforated box for living fish. III...

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car
A north-country word, denoting any swampy land surrounded by inclosures, and occasionally under wate...

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Passenger mile
·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a give...

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Sea mile
·- A geographical mile. ·see <<Mile>>. ...

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Three-mile
·add. ·adj Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine bel...

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Ton mile
·add. ·- A unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given ...

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Traffic mile
·add. ·- Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's ...

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welch mile
Like a Welch mile, long and narrow. His story is like a Welch mile, long and tedious. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
minute mile
The sixtieth part of a degree of longitude or latitude; in the latter case it is the sixtieth part o...

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nautical mile
(MEAN) = 6075·6 feet. ...

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Car mileage
·add. ·- Car miles collectively. II. Car mileage ·add. ·- The amount paid by one road the use of ca...

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Car wheel
·- A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck. ...

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Grip car
·add. ·- A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable. ...

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Motor car
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Motorcar>>. ...

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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...

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Pullman car
·- A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; — often shortened to Pullman. ...

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Touring car
·add. ·- An automobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more...

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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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Beth-car
the house of the lamb ...

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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
Car Court
In West Smithfield (Strype, 1755-Boyle, 1799). "Card Court "in Strype. Not named in the maps. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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.
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.
rail-car
A car for transporting passengers on rail-roads. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
car-hand
the left hand. N. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
car-sick
the kennel, from CAR and SIKE, a furrow or gutter ; q. the Cart-gutter. Yorks. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose