smoke-wagon

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See also: smoke wagon

English

Noun

smoke-wagon (plural smoke-wagons)

  1. Alternative form of smoke wagon
    • 1888 August, David Ker, “A Wonderful Railroad”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXVII, number CCCCLIX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC, page 483:
      The village priests were seen to go to and fro by train, and the simple country folk thought that what they did could not be wrong. By degrees the peasants themselves began to try the "smoke-wagons" too, []
  • 1997, Mike Cox, quoting John P. “Slim” Jones, “The Battle of Borger”, in Texas Ranger Tales: Stories that Need Telling, Lanham, Md.: Republic of Texas Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 201:
    I soon heard two smoke-wagons banging. [] There they lay both shot and dying.