beer engine

American  

noun

British.

1. beer pump.

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Etymology

Origin of beer engine

First recorded in 1815–25

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Example Sentences

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beer engine

The pub's main bar - with its 150-year-old Chelsea pottery beer engine pump handles - is unusually low, with short stools in front.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2017

But the relentless Force to the wheel of whose chariot he was tied, the amazing Ginger, sauntered up to the beer engine and struck Dinkie Dawson a blow on the shoulder.

From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith

"Well, you are a rum one, you are, and no mistake," murmured Miss Burton, not to the Sailor, but to the beer engine at her side.

From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith

I was, in my own opinion, as much a part of 'The Seven Stars,' as the beer engine.

From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

To go would be a terrible sad thing for me, for I've grown into this place and feel as much a part of it as the beer engine, or the herbaceous border.

From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

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