0 a large, heavy vehicle, operated by steam power, used especially in the past for pulling heavy loads along roads
You could not take a traction engine so far.
That sort of thing never happened, of course, when the old traction engine had to go round to assist in dealing with the harvest.
It is no use putting a charge on the traction engine.
The traction engine is too dangerous to the road.
Someone took away a man's traction engine, his steamroller.
For instance, they might have a road entirely ruined by traction engine traffic, or by the running of motor omnibuses.
At present there are at least three forms of traction engine on that line, all running at different speeds.
He has a traction engine in his garden, and in his wood shed he has something horrible sticking out that he messes about with from time to time.
