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Ten-Wheeler
[ ten-hwee-ler, -wee- ]
noun
- a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels, and no rear truck.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Ten-Wheeler1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
In one motion the flutter of the exhaust ceases, and the huge ten-wheeler buckles to the sudden setting of the brakes.
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Joe and his guard reached one of the huge entrances as a ten-wheeler truck came in with a load of shining metal plates.
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The ten-wheeler was on its side in the ditch, nuzzling the opposite bank of a low cutting.
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The reversing-lever of a big ten-wheeler is no child's plaything, and he stood ready to help her if she could not manage it.
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