Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A locomotive adapted to run on common roads; a road-steamer.
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This road-locomotive of Trevithick’s was one of the first high-pressure working engines constructed on the principle of moving a piston by the elasticity of steam against the pressure only of the atmosphere.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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