Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The number of occupants or the amount of material that a passenger or freight train can hold.
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- noun The amount that can be transported by a
train . - noun by extension A large amount.
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- noun quantity that can be carried by a train
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Don Harpst of McCook, remembers a "trainload" of POWs who debarked from the train at Indianola late one wintry night in 1944.
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He had shipped a trainload down and ranged them in his wilder mountain pastures to the west.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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In Annecy, the French police, who had rounded up a trainload of Jews for deportation, found them Selves looking at the barrels of guns trained on them by soldiers of the Italian Fourth Army.
Today is the 66th anniversary of the rescue of the Danish Jews. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Taking the witness stand last week, the reticent Mr. Abramovich was immediately grilled by Mr. Berezovsky's attorney about whether he had stolen a trainload of diesel fuel in 1992, had forged documents and had traded in weapons—all of which he denied.
Russian Tycoons Face Off in Court Guy Chazan 2011
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Terence Hollingworth, Blagnac, FranceHere in Germany, I remember reading about a full trainload of radioactive Turkish hazelnuts, found several years after Chernobyl on some far track of a Bundeswehr depot.
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Gas a trainload of harmless and defenceless people?
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Issa has not discouraged articles suggesting he will send the administration subpoenas by the trainload.
2012 Elections Could Be Greatly Impacted By New GOP Agenda AP 2011
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And that has been more than enough words spent writing about this doomed trainload.
The economy strikes again, no more 1UP pabba 2009
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Gas a trainload of harmless and defenceless people?
Richard Dawkins keeps attracting the wrong sorts of people « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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In July, a trainload of Metro-North passengers was stranded for about an hour without water or air conditioning near Westport, Conn., after overhead wires fell.
A Ride Home, Anonymously Ted Mann 2012
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