engine
/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/ verb C2- To equip with an engine; said especially of steam vessels. · Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
He/she/it engines · Past engined · Past participle engined · -ing form engining
Verb forms
- Base form
- engine
- He/she/it
- engines
- Past
- engined
- Past participle
- engined
- -ing form
- engining
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The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last two weeks.”
A minute later a carriage and engine could be seen flying along the open curve which leads to the station.
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