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dinkey
[ding-kee]
noun
plural
dinkeysa small locomotive, especially with a switch engine.
Example Sentences
A small train called a dinkey carried the clay to a chamber, where it was pulverized.
Anyone who wanted that dinkey pewter mug could have it, as far as he cared.
Reed lifted the silent, wondering, big-eyed girl from the dinkey train which pulled into Cartagena from Calamar ten days later, and took her to the Hotel Mariana, where his anxious, fretting wife awaited.
Esther, may I have a packet of seeds? and one of those dear dinkey little watering-cans?
But at Quebec, the best—and I had the best—were beefy members of their dinkey colonial Government or fussy, timid barristers I had to carry on me mouth.
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