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steam crane

steam crane noun: a once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually supplied from a vertical boiler.

steam crane: a once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually...
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Noun

steam crane (plural steam cranes)

  1. A once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually supplied from a vertical boiler.
    • Work commenced at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and continued without break until 4 a.m. on Monday morning, in the course of which three shifts of upwards of 90 men each and three steam cranes were employed.1958 June, “New Track Layout and Marshalling Yard at Barking”, in Railway Magazine, page 428

Forms of steam crane

pluralsteam cranes

Questions about steam crane

What does steam crane mean?
Steam crane means a once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually supplied from a vertical boiler.
What part of speech is steam crane?
Steam crane is a noun.
What is the plural of steam crane?
The plural of steam crane is steam cranes.

Words near steam crane in the dictionary

  1. steam cooker
  2. steam cookers
  3. steam cracker
  4. steam crackers
  5. steam cracking
  6. steam crane
  7. steam cranes
  8. steam devil
  9. steam digester
  10. steam digesters
  11. steam distillation

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