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"ref": "1904, Charles Dudley Warner, “The Locoed Novelist”, in The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner",
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"ref": "1898, Rudyard Kipling, chapter .007, in The Day's Work, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., page 243",
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"word": "in loco parentis"
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"word": "in loco parentum"
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"ref": "1898, Rudyard Kipling, chapter .007, in The Day's Work, New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., page 243",
"text": "A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him.",
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"(rail transport, informal) A locomotive."
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "locomotive (short form)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "locomotive (short form)",
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{
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"sense": "locomotive (short form)",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "lok"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "locomotive (short form)",
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"neuter"
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"word": "lok"
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