box wagon
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large high-sided box-shaped open wagon mounted on two four-wheel bogies, similar to a North American gondola car.
British usage
noun
Synonym of box van; a roofed goods wagon.
Example Sentences
- "Greenbrier has completed production of the first JNA-X Box Wagon prototype in Romania. It forms part of an agreement for 50 new box wagons announced in March between the manufacturer, Porterbrook and GB Railfreight."
- "The filled mail bags leave in a continuous stream to be loaded on the train of box wagons at the L.N.E.R. station at Nottingham (London Road), of which we reproduce an illustration at page 95. […] The train takes 300 bags of mail to a box wagon. Each bag weighs about 56 lb. and contains an average of 95 news packets and 9 parcels."
Usage
- British usage