walking beam
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of walking beam
An Americanism dating back to 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam."
From Time Magazine Archive
Our boat was a side wheel steamer with a walking beam.
From A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons by Elizabeth Whitney Williams
You are still so full of egotism that it sways you like the walking beam of a steamboat.
From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
The walking beam moves slowly up and down, and the Clermont floats out into the river.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
We say do not eliminate him—lift him up—make him what he naturally is and is in position to be—the walking beam of Business!
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee
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