tandem engine
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English
Noun
tandem engine (plural tandem engines)
- A compound steam engine (not the train, the engine) with two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “tandem engine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)