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waycars

waycars is the plural of waycar.

Meaning of waycar

Noun

waycar (plural waycars)

  1. 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

Questions about waycars

What is waycars the plural of?
Waycars is the plural of waycar.

Words near waycars in the dictionary

  1. Waybright
  2. Waybrights
  3. waybung
  4. waybungs
  5. waycar
  6. waycars
  7. Waycaster
  8. Waycasters
  9. Waycest
  10. waycism
  11. waycisms

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