locomotive
noun
a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.
locomotiveness
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a word derived from
locomotive.
Example Sentences
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Its condition is absolutely wonderful--nor is the history of its locomotiveness less surprising.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and ox half-way.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 by Various
