steam crane

English

Noun

steam crane (plural steam cranes)

  1. A once common but now obsolete type of crane powered by a steam engine, with the steam usually supplied from a vertical boiler.
    • 1958 June, “New Track Layout and Marshalling Yard at Barking”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
      Work commenced at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and continued without break until 4 a.m. on Monday morning, in the course of which three shifts of upwards of 90 men each and three steam cranes were employed.

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