单词 | locomotive boiler |
释义 | > as lemmaslocomotive boiler locomotive boiler n. a form of boiler used for railway locomotives, with a double-walled firebox, a horizontal barrel and fire tubes, and a smokebox with chimney; cf. locomotive-type adj. and n. ΚΠ 1831 Rep. Select Comm. Steam Carriages 41 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 324) VIII. 203 The risk of explosion in Mr. Hancock's boiler is certainly very much less than in the locomotive boilers. 1891 W. S. Hutton Steam-boiler Constr. vi. 376 The life of a locomotive-boiler is, on average, ten years. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Sept. 3/2 The..luxury train..slewed crazily over four tracks when its locomotive boiler blew up. 2009 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 7 Oct. c2 We are licensed and certified to completely reconstruct locomotive boilers for ourselves and others, which is fairly unusual for a museum. < as lemmas |
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