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   3 Phr on the cars: by a special means of rail transport.
   1983 Nfld Qtly lxxix (2), 15 A door the railway did open for Bonavista was a unique adaptation of Newfoundland's traditional winter migration to the woods, 'going in on the cars.' ... Once the snows and frost came 100-150 families loaded the furnishings for the winter camp on railway flatcars and migrated en masse to their winter homes 'on the cars.'
   4 Comb ~boy: great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), ~ man.
   1987 1987 MONTEVECCHI & TUCK 234 ~boy: Great cormorant. 1893 Evening Telegram 22 Mar This morning a carman with a load of lumber, in trying to take a short cut from Water Street through a small lane, experienced a complete breakdown. The slide went to pieces under the load. [1940] 1990 Evening Telegram 5 Feb, p. 4 A carman pleaded guilty to having no bells on his horse or slide. Sentence was suspended.

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