grip car

plural grip cars · alternative grip-car

1. USdatedA streetcar, especially a cable car.

   Those were the days of the cable cars and we all jumped on a grip-car and set off visiting gaily.

   1953, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, As I Remember, Harper, →OCLC, page 81

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   After dining Sam got on a grip car of the Wabash Avenue Cable, sitting on the front seat and letting the panorama of the town roll up to him.

   1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 3, in Windy McPherson's Son, John Lane Company, New York, →OCLC

   Seats in the grip car were very popular in the summer but in cold weather the closed car with its coal burning stove won out.

   2021, Arthur Joel Bolinger, edited by Jeffrey H. Barker and Melissa Walker, Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A.J. Bolinger, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 70