Definition of "locomotive engine" [locomotive engine]

• Same as Locomotive, above. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "The great Warwick of England, the putter-up and the puller-down of kings, did not know his letters; Marshal Soult, the greatest of Napoleon's marshals, could not write a correct sentence in French; and Stevenson, the greatest engineer the world ever saw ” the inventor of the locomotive engine ” did not know his letters at twenty-one years of age, and was always illiterate."