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Meanings of railway locomotive in inglês

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A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks.

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Usage of railway locomotive in inglês
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Even the genius of James Sullivan had not foreseen the railway locomotive.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884
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It can not be very much above that, and is therefore slower than a railway locomotive.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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So we lunched, and far away we heard a sound which showed us how completely our wilderness days were over-thescreech of a railway locomotive.
Tenting To-night / A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier...
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"Is it true that he goes at the pace of a railway locomotive?" asked Wilkins.
Hunting the Lions
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The wind brought the whistle of the railway locomotives and the clanking of a steam-dredger in the river, like a giant toiling in massive chains.
The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life
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'That's the engine he talks so much about,' said Non, indicating a model railway locomotive; that one marked five shillings.'
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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