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Definition of Boat train
1. Noun. A train taking passengers to or from a port.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boat Train
Literary usage of Boat train
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Home Railways: How They Began and how They are Worked by William John Gordon (1910)
"... the carriage admits compressed air from the small reservoir The Boat'train
leaving Lewes. to the cylinder, which brings the piston and rod into action. ..."
2. Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American (1892)
"We also tested Engine 229, which was the regular Fall River Line boat train engine
at that time. She had been running, I think, some six months. ..."
3. Special Bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1908)
"6, shall take a boat, train or car leaving either of the extreme points of the
district, as directed by their employers, going on boat, train or car leaving ..."
4. Europe's Morning After by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1921)
"Every time a boat train comes up to London a little group of earnest American
... Not long ago a boat train disgorged its travelers in Euston Station, ..."
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