petrol engine
an internal-combustion engine that uses petrol as fuel
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How to use petrol engine in a sentence
Bickerton found many odd jobs to occupy his time in connexion with the petrol-engine and the wireless installations.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonAt length the petrol engine stopped; I doubt if we did, though steak and onions now arrived.
Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front | E. W. HornungOn water, rail, and road the petrol engine has entered into rivalry with steam—very successfully too.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald WilliamsThe petrol-engine, as now used, emits the products of combustion at a high pressure.
How it Works | Archibald WilliamsInstead of the electric engine used by the Tissandiers, he employed the small petrol engine out of a motor tricycle.
Chatterbox, 1905. | Various
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