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Gasolene engine   Listen
noun
Gasolene engine, Gasoline engine  n.  (Mach.) A kind of internal-combustion engine; in British countries called usually petrol engine.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gasolene engine" Quotes from Famous Books



... certainly plenty of machinery in the cabin of the WHIZZER. Most of it was electrical, for on that power Mr. Fenwick intended to depend to sail through space. There was a new type of gasolene engine, small but very powerful, and this served to operate a dynamo. In turn, the dynamo operated an electrical motor, as Mr. Fenwick had an idea that better, and more uniform, power could be obtained in this way, than from ...
— Tom Swift and his Wireless Message • Victor Appleton

... the state of the market, he installs a rural telephone and is able to make contracts for his crops by long-distance conversation, he buys an improved piece of machinery for cultivating the farm, a gasolene engine, or a motor-wagon for quick delivery of produce; presently his neighbors discover that he is adapting himself more effectually to his environment than they are, and one by one they imitate him in adopting the new methods. By and by the community becomes known for its ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... new power boat," went on Bert. "It's a dandy, too. We ought to have a gasolene engine ...
— The Young Firemen of Lakeville - or, Herbert Dare's Pluck • Frank V. Webster

... it left Manila. She rushed down to the Pasig river, loosened her little boat from the tree to which it was tied, jumped in, seized the oars and started in pursuit. The launch on which he was being carried had for its power a gasoline engine, and, of course, it soon left her far behind. When she first started, the swells caused by the launch rocked her little canoe quite roughly and impeded her progress. As she approached the mouth of the river, passed the monument ...
— The Woman with a Stone Heart - A Romance of the Philippine War • Oscar William Coursey

... broad daylight. The Oxford student learns nothing of chemistry, physics, heat, plumbing, electric wiring, gas-fitting or the use of a blow-torch. Any American college student can run a motor car, take a gasoline engine to pieces, fix a washer on a kitchen tap, mend a broken electric bell, and give an expert opinion on what has gone wrong with the furnace. It is these things indeed which stamp him as a college man, and occasion a very pardonable pride in the minds ...
— My Discovery of England • Stephen Leacock

... boat was not quite as large as the Ariel, being perhaps two feet shorter, and also narrower in the beam. In the stern there was a gasoline engine of the newest type, bearing the name of a celebrated maker. Amidships, there was a tiny cabin that one had to stoop to enter. On one side of this were small lockers, one designed to hold tools and spare parts of the engine, the other serving as a pantry. On the other side was a low, broad ...
— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport



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