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Extremity :: Extremity (n.) One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

Double-ender :: Double-ender (n.) A locomotive with pilot at each end.

Arm :: Arm (n.) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal..

Foot :: Foot (n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum..

Locomotive :: Locomotive (a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal..

Locomotive :: Locomotive (a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal..

Water Crane :: Water crane () A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive..

Tender :: Tender (n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water..

Locomotive :: Locomotive (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..

Cowl :: Cowl (n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

Union :: Union (n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection..

Wood :: Wood (v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive..

Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable..

Driver :: Driver (n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive..

Frame :: Frame (n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.

Drawbar :: Drawbar (n.) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car..

Driver :: Driver (n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.

Gearing :: Gearing (n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery..

Footboard :: Footboard (n.) The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.

Breastbeam :: Breastbeam (n.) The front transverse beam of a locomotive.

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