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steam-engine en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of steam engine.
[…] Lady Wentworth’s elbows were upraised to her shoulders, and then depressed, like the piston of a steam-engine; […]
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 225:There was a sudden loud shriek which nearly set me screaming: I’ve been found out, I’ve been discovered. But it was only the noise of the black steam-engine coming in from the heaps.
2014, Edward Carey, Foulsham (Iremonger; 2), Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 23:
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