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locomotive

noun as in machine moving vehicle

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Farther off, whales blew jets of water from their blowholes like smoke from the smokestack of a Bloomer steam locomotive.

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The Incorrigible children hugged the fortune-teller and danced in and out of her countless billowing scarves as they caught the puffs of steam from the awakening locomotive like so many wind-filled sails.

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But it was the steam locomotive itself that had overheated the little girl’s imagination.

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In order for the Erebus to make its way through the thickest ice fields, the British Admiralty equipped the vessel with a fifteen-ton, twenty-five horsepower railroad locomotive engine.

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The tentative agreement covers 300 locomotive engineers on the Soo Line property operating trains in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

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