ringing engine

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English

Noun

ringing engine (plural ringing engines)

  1. (archaic) A simple piledriver in which the monkey is lifted by the pulling of ropes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ringing engine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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