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Traction engine

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steamernoun(cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
water enginenoun(archaic) A machine for extinguishing fires with water.
garden enginenoun(historical) A wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
donkey enginenoun(chiefly historical) A steam-powered winch, once widely used in logging operations, also found in the mining and maritime industries.
two-wheel tractornounA tractor with one axle, self-powered and self-propelled, which can pull and power various farm implements such as a trailer, cultivator or harrow, a plough, or various seeders and harvesters.
cornish enginenounA kind of beam engine used mainly for pumping water from mines. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight in descending.
winding enginenounA stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head.
steam cranenounA once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually supplied from a vertical boiler.
water wheelnounA wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.
pedrailnounA vehicle, such as a traction engine, fitted with these devices.
steamrollernoun(by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
steam rollernounAlternative form of steamroller. [(historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.]
steam generatornoun(rail transport) A type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.
driving wheelnounSynonym of steering wheel.
trailer hitchnounA hitch used to draw a trailer with a car or a traction engine.
powertillernounAlternative form of power tiller. [A tiller (machine that tills the soil) powered by an engine]
steam wagonnoun(historical) An early steam-powered road vehicle for carrying freight.
tractornoun(agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
leading wheelnounOn a steam locomotive, an unpowered wheel located in front of the driving wheels.
trailing trucknounOn a steam locomotive, a railroad truck to which wheel axles (and, hence, wheels) for one or more coupled pairs of unpowered wheels are attached through bearings, located behind the driving wheels.

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