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emigrant car Hist. 
a railway car that carried emigrants to their new places of settlement.
See also: immigrant car
- 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.
- 1895 A special train of six emigrant cars passed through here about five o'clock this morning from the east.