donkey engine

British  

noun

1. a small auxiliary engine, such as one used for pumping water into the boilers of a steamship

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donkey engine

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

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 fact, it was our only hope of possessing one of these creatures—fishing with a donkey engine, steel cable, and a hook baited with a bat being too uncertain and far more laborious and expensive.

From Police!!! by Henry Hutt

If we put on a donkey engine we’d snatch the bow out of here before we could lift the hook.

From The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Harry A. Mathes

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