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Definition of Auxiliary engine
1. Noun. (nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auxiliary Engine
Literary usage of Auxiliary engine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Melanesian Mission by E. S. Armstrong (1900)
"Also, he had received a gift in the shape of an auxiliary engine for the Southern
Cross, which would considerably increase her powers of usefulness without ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1849)
"From the foregoing it will be seen that, by means of the auxiliary engine, which
actuates the pump, a constant current of cold water is carried through the ..."
3. A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1878)
"K is the piston valve of this auxiliary engine^ which regulates the admission
and discharge of the water through the port I, exactly as the main piston ..."
4. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"Professor E. Josse, of the Royal Technical High School, Charlottenburg, has made
experiments on a steam engine with which is combined an auxiliary engine ..."
5. The Steam Engine Considered as a Thermodynamic Machine: A Treatise on the by James Henry Cotterill (1890)
"The steam used by the feed-heater may now bo considered as belonging to an
auxiliary engine which is combined with the main engine, and in estimating the ..."
6. Principles of the Mechanics of Machinery and Engineering by Julius Ludwig Weisbach, Walter Rogers Johnson (1848)
"The auxiliary engine has a horizontal cylinder aa,, with a piston b on the piston
rod c <\. ... The auxiliary engine is worked by means of the cock AA, ..."
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