'Forcing engine' definitions:

Definition of 'Forcing engine'

From: GCIDE
  • Forcing \For"cing\, n.
  • 1. The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Gardening) The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat. [1913 Webster]
  • Forcing bed or Forcing pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed.
  • Forcing engine, a fire engine.
  • Forcing fit (Mech.), a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together.
  • Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc.
  • Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle.
  • Forcing pump. See Force pump (b) . [1913 Webster]