单词 | to throw fire |
释义 | > as lemmasto throw fire c. transitive. to throw fire: (of a steam locomotive) to discharge burning fuel from the funnel. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1863 Rep. Supreme Judicial Court New-Hampsh. 43 628 One [engine] might have thrown fire constantly and the other not at all. 1893 Field 4 Mar. 332/3 Bad stoking may be..the cause of a locomotive ‘throwing fire’. 1918 Rep. Court of Appeals Georgia 21 815 I know my engine had a good spark-arrester, because she didn't throw fire. 2016 R. H. N. Hardy Life on Lines (ed. 2) v. 116/1 We went through Grove Park with the engine throwing fire. < as lemmas |
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