carloading
/kˈɑɹlˌoʊdɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The loading of a freight car.
Example Sentences
- "From 1940 to 1946, carloadings of grains ranged from about 28 to 35 percent of total shipments of products of agriculture."
- "In 1955, for example, 32 railroads reported 168,150 piggyback carloadings; in 1959 50 roads loaded 415,156 cars; [...]. T.O.F.C. still accounts for little more than 2 per cent of all U.S. carloadings but industry experts expect that percentage to reach between 25 and 50 per cent within the foreseeable future."