Definition of Switch engine

1. Noun. A locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Switch Engine

swishingly
swishings
swishness
swishy
swisses
swissing
swissings
switch-hit
switch-hits
switch-hitters
switch-ivy
switch cane
switch engine (current term)
switch hitter
switch hitters
switch hook
switch hooks
switch horn
switch horns
switch off
switch on
switch over
switch pitcher
switch pitchers
switchability
switchable

Literary usage of Switch engine

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The engineer, Harris, was ordered not to move his switch engine until work or inspection required to be done underneath the cars was finished, ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"Q. You tell switch engine men that they have a right to run 25 miles an hour in the yards! A. Yes, sir. Q. You tell them that t A. If they want to. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... in which service a switch engine was vised; tliat at the time of the injury the engineer of the switch engine was one Bassett, who, it is alleged, ..."

4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1897)
"He was clearing under a switch rod, stooping over at his work, with his back toward a switch engine, which was approaching along the eame track upon which ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The engineer, Harris, was ordered not to move his switch engine until work or inspection required to be done underneath the cars was finished, ..."

6. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"Q. You tell switch engine men that they have a right to run 25 miles an hour in the yards! A. Yes, sir. Q. You tell them that t A. If they want to. ..."

7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... in which service a switch engine was vised; tliat at the time of the injury the engineer of the switch engine was one Bassett, who, it is alleged, ..."

8. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1897)
"He was clearing under a switch rod, stooping over at his work, with his back toward a switch engine, which was approaching along the eame track upon which ..."

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