'Donkey engine' definitions:

Definition of 'donkey engine'

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noun
A locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard [syn: switch engine, donkey engine]
noun
(nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass) [syn: auxiliary engine, donkey engine]

Definition of 'Donkey engine'

From: GCIDE
  • Donkey \Don"key\ (d[o^][ng]"k[y^]), n.; pl. Donkeys (d[o^][ng]"k[i^]z). [Prob. dun, in allusion to the color of the animal + a dim. termination.]
  • 1. An ass; or (less frequently) a mule. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass. [1913 Webster]
  • Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes.
  • Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary.
  • Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the {Mucuna pruriens}, a tropical leguminous plant. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'donkey engine'

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  • doctor \doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]
  • 1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. -- Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An academical title, originally meaning a man so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. [1913 Webster]
  • By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • Doctors' Commons. See under Commons.
  • Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot.
  • Doctor fish (Zool.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish. [1913 Webster]