bullgine
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bullgine (plural bullgines)
- (US, slang, obsolete) A steam locomotive.
- 1929, The Conductor and Brakeman, volumes 46-47, page 425:
- Undoubtedly they were leaning far out of the windows, peering for signals, in momentary relaxation from the strain of nursing the slipping "bullgines" up the hill.