"grip car" meaning in English

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      "form": "grip cars",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 3, in Windy McPherson's Son, John Lane Company, New York, →OCLC",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, As I Remember, Harper, →OCLC, page 81",
          "text": "Those were the days of the cable cars and we all jumped on a grip-car and set off visiting gaily.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Arthur Joel Bolinger, edited by Jeffrey H. Barker and Melissa Walker, Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A.J. Bolinger, University Press of Kansas, page 70",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A streetcar, especially a cable car."
      ],
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          "cable car",
          "cable car"
        ]
      ],
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        "(chiefly US, dated) A streetcar, especially a cable car."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "grip-car"
        }
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      "wikipedia": [
        "grip car"
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    }
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  "word": "grip car"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 3, in Windy McPherson's Son, John Lane Company, New York, →OCLC",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, As I Remember, Harper, →OCLC, page 81",
          "text": "Those were the days of the cable cars and we all jumped on a grip-car and set off visiting gaily.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Arthur Joel Bolinger, edited by Jeffrey H. Barker and Melissa Walker, Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A.J. Bolinger, University Press of Kansas, page 70",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A streetcar, especially a cable car."
      ],
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        "(chiefly US, dated) A streetcar, especially a cable car."
      ],
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