Rocket
/ˈrɒkɪt/
/ˈrɑːkɪt/
- the name of an early steam engine (= vehicle that pulls a train) designed in the 1820s by Robert Stephenson. It was the first engine to be used regularly on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and the original version of it is now in the Science Museum, London.
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