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Example sentences from the Web for donkey enginePapa, you call that little bit of a tiny wee engine a donkey-engine, don't you? Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895|Various I screamed with horror, ran across the guarded plank, climbed the gate, and fell headlong and screaming over the donkey-engine. The Fat of the Land|John Williams Streeter Thus a donkey-engine is often stationed on the deck of a ship to work a crane for loading and unloading. The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various It seems, under his suggestion, that Wada trapped a rat in the donkey-engine room. The Mutiny of the Elsinore|Jack London
nouna small auxiliary engine, such as one used for pumping water into the boilers of a steamship Words nearby donkey enginedonjon, Don Juan, Don Juanism, donkey, donkey derby, donkey engine, donkey jacket, donkey-lick, donkey's years, donkey topsail, donkey vote Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |