noun
- a large enclosed railroad freight car with sliding doors on the sides
Examples
- The train consisted of twenty boxcars loaded with grain.
- Workers unloaded furniture from the boxcar at the depot.
- The old boxcar sat abandoned on the railroad siding.
- Hoboes sometimes rode illegally in empty boxcars during the Depression.
- The boxcar’s sliding door was painted bright red.
- Merchandise was shipped across the country in sealed boxcars.