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Definition of iron horse in English: iron horsenoun literary A steam railway locomotive. the corporate boys who ride the iron horse into the city Example sentencesExamples - But as the romance of steam shows, the symbolic power of the iron horse remains to this day as an emblem of a bygone masculine world.
- The railroad in America was sometimes called the iron horse, but in Russia (as in America) it was a wood-based system.
- They will be traveling by iron horse, sending a message to the many tribes that they are not stuffy, wealthy, and aristocratic New Englanders.
- More than one iron horse came to a sudden and explosive end because its crew were sinking pints nearby, forgetting all about the rising pressure gauge and the screwed-down safety valves.
- The West was really won not by blue-coated cavalrymen, but thanks to iron horses funded in the east by speculators.
- No longer are the great iron horses seen pounding their way along the coast.
Definition of iron horse in US English: iron horsenounˈˌī(ə)rn ˈhôrs literary 1A steam locomotive. the corporate boys who ride the iron horse into the city Example sentencesExamples - The West was really won not by blue-coated cavalrymen, but thanks to iron horses funded in the east by speculators.
- More than one iron horse came to a sudden and explosive end because its crew were sinking pints nearby, forgetting all about the rising pressure gauge and the screwed-down safety valves.
- No longer are the great iron horses seen pounding their way along the coast.
- They will be traveling by iron horse, sending a message to the many tribes that they are not stuffy, wealthy, and aristocratic New Englanders.
- But as the romance of steam shows, the symbolic power of the iron horse remains to this day as an emblem of a bygone masculine world.
- The railroad in America was sometimes called the iron horse, but in Russia (as in America) it was a wood-based system.
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