steam-engine
See also: steam engine
English
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editsteam-engine (plural steam-engines)
- Alternative form of steam engine
- 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 225:
- […] Lady Wentworth’s elbows were upraised to her shoulders, and then depressed, like the piston of a steam-engine; […]
- 2014, Edward Carey, Foulsham (Iremonger; 2), Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 23:
- There was a sudden loud shriek which nearly set me screaming: I’ve been found out, I’ve been discovered. But it was only the noise of the black steam-engine coming in from the heaps.