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steam cranes

steam cranes is the plural of steam crane.

Meaning of steam crane

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

Questions about steam cranes

What is steam cranes the plural of?
Steam cranes is the plural of steam crane.

Words near steam cranes in the dictionary

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

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