donkey engine
Britishnoun
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In French waters he became a practical mariner, laid cables with a donkey engine, came home on a terrifically tough voyage aboard the surrendered German submarine, U-117.
From Time Magazine Archive
In its closing days, the smooth-running 80th Congress clanked and rattled like a leaky donkey engine.
From Time Magazine Archive
I did that when I was 13 or 14 years old and firing a donkey engine in timber territory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Away down the valley a donkey engine tooted and whirred.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
The axe and shovel and hand lever have given place to gunpowder, the donkey engine, derrick and winch.
From A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Ithamar Howell
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