inside-cylinder

adjective

Of a steam locomotive, having its cylinders, normally two, inside the frame; a three or four-cylinder locomotive would have cylinders both inside and outside the frame.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

adjectiveinside-cylinder (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerail transportOf a steam locomotive, having its cylinders, normally two, inside the frame; a three or four-cylinder locomotive would have cylinders both inside and outside the frame.

    No. 61572 is the last of this former Great Eastern type still in service, and thus also the sole-surviving inside-cylinder 4-6-0 locomotive on British Railways

    1960 April 29, “Great Eastern 4-6-0 Swan-Songs”, in Railway Magazine, page 255, image caption
Cite this entry
APA

inside-cylinder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inside-cylinder

MLA

“inside-cylinder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inside-cylinder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inside-cylinder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inside-cylinder.

Source: inside-cylinder on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.