'Cornish engine' definitions:
Definition of 'Cornish engine'
From: GCIDE
- Cornish \Cor"nish\ (k?r"n?sh), a. Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England. [1913 Webster]
- Cornish chough. See Chough.
- Cornish engine, a single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending. [1913 Webster]