donkey engine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The anchor comes up clank, clank, as the great chain cable is wound up by the donkey engine, and now we move off silently and smoothly.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
What do I care whether you use a double-jointed conniption valve, or a reverse English injector on the donkey engine, so you get the water into them sluices?
From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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