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steam crane en · NOUN
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A once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually supplied from a vertical boiler.
Work commenced at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and continued without break until 4 a.m. on Monday morning, in the course of which three shifts of upwards of 90 men each and three steam cranes were employed.
1958 June 14, “New Track Layout and Marshalling Yard at Barking”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
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