| 单词 | steam-car |
| 释义 | > as lemmassteam-car steam-car n. a car driven or drawn by steam, e.g. a motor car worked by steam instead of petrol; U.S. a railway-carriage. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage rail wagon1824 railway wagon1824 wagon1825 car1826 railway car1828 railroad car1829 railcar1833 steam-car1833 road car1834 motor car1878 society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers steam-carriage1788 railway carriage1824 carriage1825 railroad carriage1826 railroad car1829 railroad coach1829 rail carriage1831 coach1832 passenger car1832 steam-car1833 passenger carriage1838 passenger coach1841 day coach1869 bogie1919 clockwork orange1978 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > steam-powered > steam car steam-car1833 steamer1900 1833 Amer. Rail Road Jrnl. 2 225/2 The Steam Car accomplished the distance. 1836 Southern Lit. Messenger 2 762 The canal and the rail road, the steam boat and steam car, constitute in fact the great and characteristic powers of the age in which we live. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Steam-car, a car drawn by steam-power. 1877 Rep. Sel. Comm. Tramways 105 Steam cars might be very safely used, perhaps in Whitechapel. 1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 11 There, in the distance, flies the train of steam-cars. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxi. 69 When you meet them in the steam cars (i.e. on a railway journey). 1903 J. Fox Little Shepherd v. 65 ‘Steam cars!’ they cried. 1904 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 14 Dec. 2/3 A De Dion steam car and a petrol bicycle. 1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate 7 They clambered aboard..the steam cars. 1969 Listener 3 July 31/3 Mr Donald Healey, developer of Austin-Healey sports cars, is rumoured to be building..a 140 m.p.h. steam car... The current spate of steam-car development projects. < as lemmas |
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