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A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
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A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
v. i.
A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.
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Alt. of Locomotivity
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An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
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Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
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Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.
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A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.
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A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
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Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
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A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc.
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Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
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A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.
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A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
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Any one of the abdominal appendages of a crustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. See Illust. of Crustacea, and Stomapoda.
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A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
v. t.
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
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Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
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Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
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