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Gas engine   Listen
noun
Gas engine  n.  (Mach.) A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gas engine" Quotes from Famous Books



... they haven't learned how to run a gas engine yet! Get out your magnifying glass, Tom; what's that, a ...
— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... that the big steam tractors and engines could teach me and I did not want to waste time on something that would lead nowhere. A few years before—it was while I was an apprentice—I read in the World of Science, an English publication, of the "silent gas engine" which was then coming out in England. I think it was the Otto engine. It ran with illuminating gas, had a single large cylinder, and the power impulses being thus intermittent required an extremely heavy fly-wheel. As far as weight ...
— My Life and Work • Henry Ford



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