water engine

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water engine

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water engine (plural water engines)

(archaic) An engine to raise water.
(archaic) An engine moved by water.
(archaic) A machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “water engine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)