traction engine

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   steam-powered locomotive for drawing heavy loads along surfaces other than tracks

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Questions about traction engine

What does traction engine mean?

traction engine means "steam-powered locomotive for drawing heavy loads along surfaces other than tracks".

Is traction engine a common word?

traction engine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.