Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A locomotive used for drawing freight-trains.
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Examples
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One summer's day he stood on a high mountain with a railroad in the valley, and saw a great freight-engine stop still and pour out its masses of dense black smoke.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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"Toomey, of 'E' Troop, fireman on the big freight-engine!
To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Charles King 1888
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Get _me_ permission to ride on any freight-engine, Mountain Division, for the next three days, and I'm off for the mines before we're half a day older, and no man here or there the wiser. "
To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Charles King 1888
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