A watertight boat or box, travelling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore, and used to haul people through the waves.

plural of car-booter

(US, colloquial) The crime of breaking into an automobile.

plural of car clout

A car that is or can be rented, usually for a short period, from a car rental company.

Synonym of auto body / (rail transport) The body of a rail vehicle called a car.

windscreen, side or rear window or glass panel roof on a vehicle.

(rail transport) A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route, sometimes with glass sides or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.

Alternative form of boxcar

(railways) A mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.