Definition of Bullgine

1. a steam locomotive [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullgine

bullfaced
bullfeast
bullfeasts
bullfice
bullfighter
bullfighters
bullfighting
bullfightings
bullfights
bullfinch
bullfinches
bullfly
bullfrog
bullfrogs
bullgine (current term)
bullgines
bullhead
bullhead rail
bullhead rails
bullheaded
bullheadedly
bullheadedness
bullheads
bullhook
bullhooks
bullhorn
bullhorns
bulliable
bullied

Literary usage of Bullgine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes (1920)
"There was one old devil with a broken nose — Ah-way 0, to me 0 — He was four score years, as I suppose — But, sing, my bullies, let the bullgine run. ..."

2. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"It went on, it did, an' de bullgine run faster an' faster twel it run so fast you could n't hear it toot fer ..."

3. The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper by Arthur Hamilton Clark (1910)
"... decks swabbed dry, and the pumps manned to another rousing chanty: " London town is a-burning, Oh, run with the bullgine, run. Way, yay, way, yay, yar, ..."

4. Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris, Arthur Burdett Frost, J. M. Condé, Frank Ver Beck (1905)
"It went on, it did, an' de bullgine run faster an' faster twel it run so fast you could n't hear it toot fer brakes, an' des 'bout de time dat eve'ything ..."

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