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1831 Mechanics' Mag. 17 Sept. 454/2 And yet thou dost pretend thus to locomote.

1834 Knickerbocker 4 20 Who but our author would represent him [sc. a bard], ‘locomoting’ on a long, dog-trot over the bogs of his neighborhood.

1846 Quarter Race Kentucky 83 He throws the galls in, and a bed too in the hay, if you git too hot to locomote.

1865 Intellect. Observer Sept. 83 [Snail-leeches] locomote by attaching one extremity of the body to the ground..and by drawing the other extremity up to that point.

1887 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 23 269/1 They are able to locomote very swiftly by the aid of their fins, tails and feet.

1894 Proc. Royal Soc. 55 163 They [sc. the leucocytes]..do not locomote over the floor of the counter.

1930 L. Charteris Last Hero xi. 177 He locomoted fatly across the room, and stooped over Roger.

1970 Amateur Photographer 22 Apr. 9/3 That foot..pointing daintily downward; except for a prima ballerina I've never yet seen a dame who could locomote like that.

1974 Nature 15 Mar. 240/1 Colchicine and vinblastine caused the ruffling activity of fibroblasts locomoting in culture to spread from a restricted area to all parts of the edge of the cells.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 Apr. d4/4 Yet above all the skeleton allows us to locomote, which means it gets banged up and kicked around.