DCHP-3

emigrant car

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a railway car that carried emigrants to their new places of settlement.

Quotations

1895
A special train of six emigrant cars passed through here about five o'clock this morning from the east.
1913
He came West on an emigrant car.