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Robinet :: Robinet (n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.

Enginous :: Enginous (a.) Pertaining to an engine.

Engineer :: Engineer (n.) One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver..

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..

Greaser :: Greaser (n.) One who, or that which, greases; specifically, a person employed to lubricate the working parts of machinery, engines, carriages, etc..

Cross-tail :: Cross-tail (n.) A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.

Engineer :: Engineer (v. t.) To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress..

Engineer :: Engineer (v. t.) To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road..

Exhaust :: Exhaust (a.) Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work..

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel.

Thrower :: Thrower (n.) One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.

Corps :: Corps (n. sing. & pl.) A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps..

Engineering :: Engineering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enginee.

Trebucket :: Trebucket (n.) A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force..

Engineering :: Engineering (n.) Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer..

Water Engine :: Water engine () An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine..

Indicator :: Indicator (n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the pist

Wall :: Wall (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder..

Engine :: Engine (n.) Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.

Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

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