Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A train of freightcars. Called in Great Britain a goods-train.
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Examples
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The testimony of his team-mates, even so, suggests the coming man is arriving at freight-train speed.
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See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.
A Must-See Movie 2009
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See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.
A Must-See Movie 2009
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See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.
A Must-See Movie 2009
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See a roundup of the week's best photos, from a rainbow in Prague, a freight-train collision in Russia and a protest in Ukraine.
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I might be walking down the track to the water-tank to lie in wait for a passing freight-train, when I would chance upon a bunch of "alki-stiffs."
Chapter 13 2010
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See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.
A Must-See Movie 2009
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See the link for a factual story of one of these freight-train hoppers.
A Must-See Movie 2009
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All of this goes by with good momentum, since you can read this novel, or at least I read it, at freight-train speed, taking in one scene quickly and rushing on to the next, happy in the end that a novel so replete with misery can turn out to deliver so much reading pleasure.
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And thus began his descent into madness, as he is now hunted by walking death itself, in the form of Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), the most frightening freight-train of a killer since the shark in Jaws.
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