train

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verbprepare
verbaim at

Word Origin & History

early 14c., "a drawing out, delay," later "trailing part of a skirt" (mid-15c.), also "retinue, procession" (mid-15c.), from Old French train (fem. traine), from trainer "to pull, draw," from Vulgar Latin *traginare, extended from *tragere "to pull," back-formation from tractus, past participle of Latin trahere "to pull, draw" (see tract (n.1)).

Train of thought first attested 1650s. The railroad sense is recorded from 1820 (publication year, dated 1816), from notion of a "train" of wagons or carriages pulled by a mechanical engine.

Example Sentences for train

They walked rapidly to the station, but too late, of course, for the train.

The lawyer left them at the next station to wait for a train back to Butte.

As the train started he swung himself off with a sad little "Be good to yourself!"

And now, as the train took her swiftly to her fate, she made the best of it.

He is to be taken to the depot, to go to Virginia in the first ...

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