steam-engine

See also: steam engine

English

Noun

steam-engine (plural steam-engines)

  1. Alternative form of steam engine
    • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 225:
      […] Lady Wentworth’s elbows were upraised to her shoulders, and then depressed, like the piston of a steam-engine; […]
    • 2014, Edward Carey, Foulsham (Iremonger; 2), Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 23:
      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.
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