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motive power Noun 1. any source of energy used to produce motion 2. the means of supplying power to an engine or vehicle
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Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams' of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time. We would have to discover a motive power of extraordinary force, and almost impossible lightness of machinery. But about that time I noticed that the motive power had taken to standing on one leg, and I found that there was something the matter with the other one; so I stocked the business and unloaded, taking Sir Bors de Ganis into camp financially along with certain of his friends; for the works stopped within a year, and the good saint got him to his rest. |
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motive power - the power or ability to move
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