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名詞

water engine (plural water engines)

1. (archaic) An engine moved by water.

   Coordinate terms: steam engine, wind engine, horse engine, donkey engine, windmill, horse power

   Near-synonym: watermill

   In those days, grist mills were powered by water engines, wind engines, or horse engines.

2. (archaic) An engine to raise water, often for mine drainage.

   Coordinate term: man engine (“an engine to raise men out of the mine”)

   Near-synonym: water pump

   In the earliest years after James Watt developed his steam engine, most of the capital that bought his engines came from mine owners who used them to power water engines for mine drainage.

3. (archaic) A machine for extinguishing fires with water.

   Near-synonym: fire engine (synonymous in the pre–motor-truck era)

   In 1887, several businesses in this town pooled the funds necessary to buy a state-of-the-art water engine and a large new set of leather buckets for the bucket brigade.

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