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locomote, v.|ˈləʊkəməʊt|
[Back-formation from locomotion.]
intr. To move about from place to place.
(Originally slang; subsequently adopted or re-invented in biological use.)
1834Knickerbocker IV. 20 Who but our author would represent him [sc. a bard], ‘locomoting’ on a long, dog-trot over the bogs of his neighborhood. 1846Quarter Race Kentucky 83 He throws the galls in, and a bed too in the hay, if you git too hot to locomote. 1865Intell. Observ. Sept. 83 [Snail-leeches] locomote by attaching one extremity of the body to the ground..and by drawing the other extremity up to that point. 1887Hardwicke's Sci.-Gossip XXIII. 269/1 They are able to locomote very swiftly by the aid of their fins, tails and feet. 1894Proc. R. Soc. LV. 163 They [sc. the leucocytes]..do not locomote over the floor of the counter. 1970Amat. Photographer 22 Apr. 9/3 That foot..pointing daintily downward; except for a prima ballerina I've never yet seen a dame who could locomote like that. 1974Nature 15 Mar. 240/1 Colchicine and vinblastine caused the ruffling activity of fibroblasts locomoting in culture to spread from a restricted area to all parts of the edge of the cells. |