💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Traction engine"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 tractornoun | A 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 enginenoun | A 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 enginenoun | A stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head. |
| steam cranenoun | A once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually supplied from a vertical boiler. |
| water wheelnoun | A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery. |
| pedrailnoun | A vehicle, such as a traction engine, fitted with these devices. |
| steamrollernoun | (by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller. |
| steam rollernoun | Alternative 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 wheelnoun | Synonym of steering wheel. |
| trailer hitchnoun | A hitch used to draw a trailer with a car or a traction engine. |
| powertillernoun | Alternative 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 wheelnoun | On a steam locomotive, an unpowered wheel located in front of the driving wheels. |
| trailing trucknoun | On 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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