| 单词 | locomotive builder |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocomotive builder b. Objective and instrumental, as locomotive builder, locomotive-hauled, etc. ΚΠ 1838 Trans. Inst. Civil Engineers 2 177 The rage for velocity and heavier loads will..neutralize every effort of the locomotive builder to diminish the consumption of fuel. 1865 J. W. Draper Thoughts Future Civil Policy Amer. ii. 127 George Stevenson, once a locomotive stoker,..converted the locomotive of the last century, which at its utmost speed could travel seven miles an hour, into the locomotive of this, which can accomplish seventy. 1889 Documents Senate State of New York V. xxi. 88 Such an affair would probably have occurred at the elevated track curve if untested when locomotive-hauled trains afterward passed rapidly over it. 1917 T. R. Shaw Precision Grinding Machines ii. 28 Grinding machines with planetary spindles, specially adapted to the requirements of locomotive building. 1947 Locomotive Cycl. Amer. Pract. (ed. 13) 93/1 A locomotive operator must be advised of faulty operation of..power plants..under his control and alarm circuits are used for this purpose. 1970 Railway Mag. Oct. 546/1 The locomotive-hauled stock of British Railways has been drastically pruned in recent years. 2003 Supreme Court Econ. Rev. 10 35 Had the West ‘selected’..funicular instead of locomotive-pulled railroads, its economic success and political domination would have been little changed. 2009 B. Solomon Alco Locomotives i. 19 During Alco's early years, American locomotive manufacturing reached its all-time production zenith. < as lemmas |
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