- Flying Scotsman, for example - Insane reason for a train engine - Iron horse - Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to
change place; as, a locomotive animal. - Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of
an animal. - A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage,
especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines
which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, --
used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars,
etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
- A lucky charm for some - It’s good luck to see steeds pull out weeds - Metal plate for a hoof - Supposedly lucky item - Symbol of good luck - A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron
in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof. - Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.
- Boring part of stable tack - Boring piece of computer information - Comedian’s routine - Computer memory unit - Fragment - Horse’s mouthpiece - Mouthpiece of a bridle
- seal with oakum - To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of
(a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by
smearing the seams with melted pitch. - To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as
along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of
the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. - To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red
or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the
lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against
which it is laid or held. - A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on
the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; --
called also calker, calkin. - An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe
or boot, to prevent slipping. - To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to
calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.