locomotive's Usage Examples:

Iron war-ships, railway locomotives, iron bridges, machinery, 'c.

Henderson recording the tests of a freight locomotive made on the Chicago ' North-Western railway.

Locomotives have to start with the full load on the engine, consequently an outstanding feature of every compound locomotive is the apparatus or mechanism added to enable the engine to start readily.

A terminal station embraces (I) the passenger station; (2) the goods station; (3) the locomotive, carriage and waggon depots, where the engines and the carrying stock are kept, cleaned, examined and repaired.

locomotive haulage has been used on the busy Cardiff to Rhymney commuter route for a decade.

With a steam locomotive all the power is concentrated in one machine, and therefore the weight on the drivers available for adhesion is limited.

A locomotive is moving.

The unbalanced masses of a locomotive may be divided into two parts, namely, masses which revolve, as the crank-pins, the crank-cheeks, the couplingrods, 'c.

The first legs, meaning thereby the sixth pair of appendages, are generally pediform and locomotive, but sometimes unjointed, acting as a kind of brushes to cleanse the furca, while in the Polycopidae they are entirely wanting.

Among Davenport's manufactures are the products of foundries and machine shops, and of flouring, grist and planing mills; glucose syrup and products; locomotives, steel cars and car parts, washing machines, waggons, carriages, agricultural implements, buttons, macaroni, crackers and brooms.

In dealing with the practical side of beekeeping as now understood, it may be said that, compared with the methods in vogue during the first decade of the 19th century, or even within the memory of men still living at the beginning of the loth, it is as the modern locomotive to the stagecoach of a previous generation.

The only conception that can explain the movement of the locomotive is that of a force commensurate with the movement observed.

The city lies in an agricultural and grape-growing; region, and has a fine harbour and an extensive lake trade; the: manufactures include locomotives, radiators, lumber, springs, shirts, axes, wagons, steel, silk gloves and concrete blocks.

Synonyms:

pilot engine, engine, tank engine, dinky, pilot, choo-choo, shunter, tank locomotive, diesel locomotive, cowcatcher, traction engine, iron horse, footplate, train, locomotive engine, donkey engine, switch engine, dinkey, railway locomotive, electric locomotive, railroad train, steam locomotive, buffer, fender, self-propelled vehicle,

Antonyms:

unattractive, big, large,