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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small engine and necessary transmissive machinery to enable a massive engine to be turned over slowly for inspection or adjustment without the use of motor steam in the large cylinders. If used to start the large engine under steam it is often called a barring-engine.
- noun A lathe fitted with an engine of some kind to turn it without the use of the treadle or hand-power.
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