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单词 steam-car
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steam-car
steam-car n. a car driven or drawn by steam, e.g. a motor car worked by steam instead of petrol; U.S. a railway-carriage.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage
rail wagon1824
railway wagon1824
wagon1825
car1826
railway car1828
railroad car1829
railcar1833
steam-car1833
road car1834
motor car1878
society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers
steam-carriage1788
railway carriage1824
carriage1825
railroad carriage1826
railroad car1829
railroad coach1829
rail carriage1831
coach1832
passenger car1832
steam-car1833
passenger carriage1838
passenger coach1841
day coach1869
bogie1919
clockwork orange1978
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > steam-powered > steam car
steam-car1833
steamer1900
1833 Amer. Rail Road Jrnl. 2 225/2 The Steam Car accomplished the distance.
1836 Southern Lit. Messenger 2 762 The canal and the rail road, the steam boat and steam car, constitute in fact the great and characteristic powers of the age in which we live.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Steam-car, a car drawn by steam-power.
1877 Rep. Sel. Comm. Tramways 105 Steam cars might be very safely used, perhaps in Whitechapel.
1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 11 There, in the distance, flies the train of steam-cars.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxi. 69 When you meet them in the steam cars (i.e. on a railway journey).
1903 J. Fox Little Shepherd v. 65Steam cars!’ they cried.
1904 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 14 Dec. 2/3 A De Dion steam car and a petrol bicycle.
1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate 7 They clambered aboard..the steam cars.
1969 Listener 3 July 31/3 Mr Donald Healey, developer of Austin-Healey sports cars, is rumoured to be building..a 140 m.p.h. steam car... The current spate of steam-car development projects.
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