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Definition of Freight liner
1. Noun. A long-distance express freight train between industrial centers and seaports with facilities for rapid loading and unloading of goods.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freight Liner
Literary usage of Freight liner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"It is, perhaps, outside the province of this paper to discuss the question of
freight liner versus freight tramps. The liner comes more to the front as time ..."
2. Industrial Magazine (1907)
"With the exception of Jim Hill's monster vessels, the Dakota and Minnesota, she
is the largest freight liner in the world. The Manchuria cost originally ..."
3. Information Annual ...: A Continuous Cyclopedia and Digest of Current Events (1916)
"—"Armenian" case The Dominion freight liner Armenian, flying the British flag
and carrying mules from Newport News, Va., to England, was torpedoed and sunk ..."
4. Ports and Terminal Facilities by Roy Samuel MacElwee (1918)
"... the better the service, the more animated the business of the port, the greater
the possibility of filling the large and economical freight liner. ..."
5. Writing for Print: A Handbook in Journalistic Composition, with Suggestions by Harry Franklin Harrington (1922)
"This morning the steamer Nantucket, a freight liner, with two passengers on board,
struck the Old Dominion line's passenger steamer Monroe off Hogg Island, ..."
6. Railway Reform: Regulation of Freight Transport Markets by ECMT Staff, Ecmt (2001)
"... later purchased the loss making Rail Express Systems and the Channel Tunnel
part of Railfreight Distribution |ie excluding the Freight- liner business1. ..."
7. Zimmermann on Ocean Shippingby Erich Walter Zimmermann by Erich Walter Zimmermann (1921)
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