Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An engine to raise water; also, an engine propelled by water.
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Examples
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Only they must give a little water-engine for blowing it into the bargain.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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Sharnall was sometimes tactless, and even rude, considering that he was beholden to Lord Blandamer for new pedals and new bellows and a water-engine _in esse_, and for the entire repair of the organ _in posse_.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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It was strange, there was no sound of music; there was no one playing; there was only the intolerably monotonous booming of a single pedal-note, with an occasional muffled thud when the water-engine turned spasmodically to replenish the emptying bellows.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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In the meantime pray order at once the water-engine and new pedal-board of which you speak, and inform me as to the cost. '
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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Ever since he had seen the water-engine at Carisbury, he had been convinced that sooner or later they must have one at Cullerne.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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He is a daft fellow, but still was some sort of company; but now the water-engine is put in, I feel lonely there, and don't care to go as often as I used.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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Shutter, the organist of Carisbury Cathedral, has just had a water-engine put in, and, now we've got our own new waterworks at
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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And then there came into his mind another thought: he would go to the church, the water-engine should blow for him, and he would play himself sober.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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In the meantime he _would_ see to the new pedal-board, and order the water-engine.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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This wi 'the wheels were called the water-engine, and it was his crazy thought that, by heating the water in that ere kettle, ye might make the wheels go round, and thereby travel along iron bars quicker nor a horse could run.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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