sb. and a. [f. L. locō (see LOCOMOTIVE) + mōtor, agent-n. f. movēre to move: see MOTOR. Cf. F. locomoteur, whence the adjective use B. is adopted.]
A. sb. One who or something that has locomotive power.
1822. Lamb, Elia, Ser. I. Dist. Corresp. They [kangaroos] would show as fair a pair of hind-shifters as the expertest loco-motor in the colony.
1869. Daily News, 2 June, 5/3. There are several improved specimens of the new locomotor on view and in action.
1883. B. W. Richardson, in Longm. Mag., Oct., 594. [Cycling] Everyone his own locomotor against time.
1889. Elect. Rev. XXIV. 8 March, 270/1 (Cent.). All the electric locomotors on the same circuit may be regarded as running upon a level track.
B. adj. (Chiefly Phys.) Of, pertaining to, or concerned with locomotion. Locomotor ataxy: see ATAXY 2.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 48. Soleshaped locomotor disc known as the foot.
1877. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. II. 351. To explore our spinal cords and to observe the locomotor system of Medusæ.
1880. Bastian, Brain, 70. Animals devoid of locomotor appendages.
1881. Nature, XXIII. 280. The peculiar metamorphosis enables the larva to remain adapted to a locomotor life.