STOCKCAR
Stock car
In railroad terminology, a stock car or cattle wagon is a type of rolling stock used for carrying livestock to market. A traditional stock car resembles a boxcar with louvered instead of solid car sides for the purpose of providing ventilation; stock cars can be single-level for large animals such as cattle or horses, or they can have two or three levels for smaller animals such as sheep, pigs, and poultry. Specialized types of stock cars have been built to haul live fish and shellfish and circus animals such as camels and elephants. Until the 1880s, when the Mather Stock Car Company and others introduced "more humane" stock cars, loss ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Stock car (rail)
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stock car
Noun
- A racing car, such as those sanctioned by NASCAR and ARCA, based on one of the regular production models available for purchase by the public.
- Stock cars can't have all the modifications of other racing cars.
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