Meanings
adjectivenon-steam (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of nonsteam
With the non-steam types maximum power is there for the taking, as it were—at any time.
1960 April 29, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
Origin
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