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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Etymology
Origin of enginery
Example Sentences
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King of France, crossed the Alps with an army of twenty-two thousand men, in the highest state of discipline, and armed with all the modern enginery of war.
From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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 Vide, V. V.
The faint and infallible rhythm of her perfect enginery came throbbing to us across the water ...
From The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Mathes, Harry A.
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 Stanton, Henry B.
What ordnance and what martial enginery Could e'er avail his legions proud to quell?
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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