Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
gas-engine . - noun A motor or engine in which the piston is moved by the gas or vapor from an ammonia liquor.
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Examples
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In the midst of the wreckage was something that looked for all the world like the remains of a gas-motor.
The Treasure-Train 1908
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An experimental wet gas-motor, of which the water-line has been accurately set (by means of the Gas Referees '1/12 cubic foot measure, or
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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