noun
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a collection or assembly of engines; machinery
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engines employed in warfare
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rare skilful manoeuvring or contrivance
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Origin of enginery
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Von Moltke had thought out the conquest of France years before fate blew the trumpet that set the tremendous enginery of his plans in motion.
From The Young Man and the World by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
Parliamentary Reform, the enginery by which the people of England must work out a bloodless revolution, was repeatedly agitated, and with various results.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
This was pierced by thirty port-holes, to enable as many thirty-two pounders to fire red hot balls; her upper or spar deck was plain, and she was to be propelled by her enginery alone.
From Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Howard I. (Howard Irving) Chapelle
The other batteries Beauregard provided to render the upper end of the island untenable, cannot withstand, I fear, the enginery of the enemy.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
In the centre was a battlemented gateway, of sufficient strength to resist any force that could be brought against it, by the rude enginery of native warfare.
From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by V. V. Vide
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