| 单词 | donkey engine |
| 释义 | donkey engine (once / 82079 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY donkey engine: donkey engines USAGE EXAMPLESWe baited a big hook, and pulled him in with the donkey engine. Duffield, J. W., Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator(2012) Start the donkey engine to feed cold water into the boilers. 3d. Rose, Joshua, Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volum...(2012) “Heave a link!” shouts the officer, and Shoo Fly and the donkey engine heaveth. Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, West African studies(2012) 1 n a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard 2Syn|Hyper switch engine engine, locomotive, locomotive engine, railway locomotive a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks n (nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass) Syn|Hyper auxiliary engine engine motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work |
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