| 单词 | pug-engine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspug-engine 11. More fully pug-engine. A small locomotive used chiefly for shunting; a contractor's engine. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > used for shunting pony engine1864 pug1872 switching-engine or -locomotive1875 switcher1882 switch-engine1896 1872 Times 18 Dec. 5/4 The 3 o'clock train from Airdrie to Glasgow..came into collision with a train of waggons drawn by a pug engine. 1893 W. Aitken Rodgerson's Doug in Echoes from Iron Road 156 No a shift of the waggons, or shunt with the pug. 1901 Daily Express 28 Aug. 6/3 While twenty navvies were returning home on a pug engine..the engine overturned at a curve on the line and fell down the embankment. 1965 H. Sheppard Dict. Railway Slang 9 Pug, Lancashire and Yorkshire 0-4-0 dock saddle tank. 1987 Railway Mag. Nov. 726/1 Of memory, too, is Glengarnock Steel Works, where ‘pugs’ shunted..while the wagon works at Barassie is also long gone. c1992 W. Roberton (title) Scottish colliery pugs in the seventies; the last decade of steam in the Scottish coalfields. < as lemmas |
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