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Definition of Engine block

1. Noun. A metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine. "The engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Engine Block

Literary usage of Engine block

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Deep Well Drilling: The Principles and Practices of Deep Well Drilling, and by Walter Henry Jeffery (1921)
"The engine is mounted on the engine block and the belt pulley is lined up with the band wheel. The boiler and engine connections are made ; steam pipe from ..."

2. The American Petroleum Industry by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1916)
"... O1 Derrick sills S Headache post m-m1 Engine mud sills M Pitman l1, 1* Engine pony sills X Crown block 1 engine block Y Sand-sheave pully block n Bumper ..."

3. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1895)
"Bull rope couplings. Brake lever. Brace of back jack-post, Q1. Engine belt. Centre irons. Brace of engine block, m. engine block. Engine. Samson post brace. ..."

4. The Locomotive Up to Date by Charles McShane (1920)
"If an equalizer on an eight-wheeled engine, block on top of one box and block up the loose end of the equalizer, when possible, the same as for a broken ..."

5. One Thousand Pointers for Machinists & Engineers by Charles McShane (1897)
"If an equalizer on a standard eight- wheeled engine, block on top of one box and block up the loose end of the equalizer when possible the same as for a ..."

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