Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cold meat train

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables
cold meat -train
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The last railway train of the night by which officers could reach Aldershot via the South Western Railway.

British usage; Obsolete; Slang

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What does cold meat train mean?
The last railway train of the night by which officers could reach Aldershot via the South Western Railway.
Where does cold meat train come from?
So called because this train used to convey corpses to Woking on behalf of the London Necropolis Company.

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