Ten-Wheeler

[ ten-hwee-ler, -wee- ]

noun

1. a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels, and no rear truck.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ten-Wheeler¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

These engines, however, were not of the regular "Mogul" type, as they were only modifications of the ten-wheeler, the drivers retaining the same position, well back, and a pair of pony-wheels on the Bissell plan taking the place of the ordinary four-wheeled truck.

From Project Gutenberg

You ought to seen 'em start out, nary a slip, cutting off square as a die, small one ahead speaking her little piece chipper and fast on account of her smaller wheels, and the ten-wheeler barking bass, steady as a clock, with a hundred-and-enough on the gauge, a full throttle, and half a pipe of sand.

From Project Gutenberg

Army ten-wheeler, bolted a gantry on top of it and went to work.

From Time Magazine Archive

Filmed in the mountains of Colorado, but taking only the most mischievous view of what may actually have happened there in 1876, the Technicolored movie recounts the adventures of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler on its first run into the Rockies.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them.

From Time Magazine Archive