waycar
/ˈweɪˌkɑːr/
waycar noun: a crewed railroad car attached to the end of a freight train, serving as the conductor’s office, lookout (often via a cupola), and living quarters—equivalent to a caboose. Used chiefly in North America, historically.
Noun
waycar (plural waycars)
- A crewed railroad car attached to the end of a freight train, serving as the conductor’s office, lookout (often via a cupola), and living quarters—equivalent to a caboose. Used chiefly in North America, historically.
- The question certainly has two sides, some able managers thinking that keeping the locomotives circulating round without attaching any set practice of making a conductor, engineer, fireman and two brakemen follow a certain waycar and all keep together, taking out any engine which may be available...1889 January, “Running Locomotives Without Regular Crews.”, in Locomotive Engineers’j Monthly Journal, volume XXIII, number 1, page 114
- The waycar is the rear car on the train. It is generally called a caboose.1930, Ackerman V. Michigan Central Railroad Co. Gentinne V. Same, 249 MICH 693 (1930), page 70
Forms of waycar
| plural | waycars |
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Origin of waycar
way + car
Questions about waycar
- What does waycar mean?
- Waycar means a crewed railroad car attached to the end of a freight train, serving as the conductor’s office, lookout (often via a cupola), and living quarters—equivalent to a caboose. Used chiefly in North America, historically.
- What part of speech is waycar?
- Waycar is a noun.
- How do you pronounce waycar?
- Waycar is pronounced /ˈweɪˌkɑːr/.
- What is the plural of waycar?
- The plural of waycar is waycars.
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