donkey engine
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I did that when I was 13 or 14 years old and firing a donkey engine in timber territory.
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
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
How humiliating for a horse to be dragged aloft by a donkey engine!
From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 by Various
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 Hutt, Henry
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