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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A railroad locomotive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Obsolete A locomotive; -- an term no longer used.

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  • noun transport A steam railroad locomotive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (c. 1840) an early term for a locomotive

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