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Ten-Wheeler

[ ten-hwee-ler, -wee- ]

noun

  1. 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

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These engines, however, were not of the regular "Mogul" type, as they were only modifications of the ten-wheeler, the drivers retaining the same position, well back, and a pair of pony-wheels on the Bissell plan taking the place of the ordinary four-wheeled truck.

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Army ten-wheeler, bolted a gantry on top of it and went to work.

Filmed in the mountains of Colorado, but taking only the most mischievous view of what may actually have happened there in 1876, the Technicolored movie recounts the adventures of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler on its first run into the Rockies.

In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them.

In the late afternoon, our ten-wheeler pulled into the large village of Chiang-chiahu, forward headquarters of General Hu Chang-ching's 99th Army.

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