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Auxiliary engine   /ɑgzˈɪljəri ˈɛndʒən/   Listen
Auxiliary engine

noun
1.
(nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass).  Synonym: donkey engine.






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"Auxiliary engine" Quotes from Famous Books



... able to take cognizance of the musty-smelling place, which, on the whole, was in a better state of repair than the arcade. The first cellar yielded nothing of value to him, but, making his way through a low vaulted door, he chanced into what must have been one of the smaller, auxiliary engine-rooms. ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... pulley, there is a small auxiliary engine, M, which is then geared with the axle of the said pulley, and which raises the sounding apparatus that has been freed from its weight by a method that ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 • Various



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