The Collaborative International Dictionary
Locomotive \Lo"co*mo`tive\, n. A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Consolidation locomotive, a locomotive having four pairs of connected drivers.
Locomotive car, a locomotive and a car combined in one vehicle; a dummy engine. [U.S.]
Locomotive engine. Same as Locomotive, above.
Mogul locomotive. See Mogul.
WordNet
n. a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks [syn: locomotive, engine, railway locomotive]
Usage examples of "locomotive engine".
The beat of the locomotive engine slowed and became deeper as it ran onto the slope.
The little locomotive engine wheezed and puffed at the rear of the enclosure, shoving the heavy box of iron forward.
Memory of the toxic locomotive engine buried out by the Plants that cannot simply remain buried but must be chopped to bits and cast into the center of the earth.
At the noise of his landing, the others came out from behind the rusted shell of a locomotive engine, weeds growing between the wheels, and a buzzard's nest cresting the long cold smokestack.