locomotive
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
locomotive/ləʊkəˈməʊtɪv/
▶noun a powered railway vehicle used for pulling trains. ▶adjective relating to locomotion.
■ archaic (of a machine, vehicle, or animal) having the power of progressive motion.
– origin C17 (as adj.): from mod. L. locomotivus, from L. loco (ablative of locus ‘place’) + late L. motivus ‘motive’.
'locomotive' also found in these Oxford entries:
ASLEF
- bank
- coupling rod
- cowcatcher
- diagram
- diesel-electric
- diesel-hydraulic
- engine
- footplate
- iron horse
- light engine
- loco
- rack railway
- roundhouse
- saddle tank
- shunter
- smokestack
- steam
- steam engine
- tank engine
- tender
- trailing wheel
- train
- trainspotter
- turntable
- working
