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.