donkey engine

The donkey engine puffed, and the sailors stood ready to steer the patient upward, just as you see in the picture.

This "skidding" is done by a powerful, steam-driven stationary donkey-engine, which is fitted up with a long cable and a drum.

The use of water power, the horse, and sometimes the ox, gave way to the use of the donkey engine.

I screamed with horror, ran across the guarded plank, climbed the gate, and fell headlong and screaming over the donkey-engine.

He proposed to hitch a rope to it, drop this rope to a donkey-engine in the yard, and set the engine winding up the rope.