trunk engine
noun
an engine having a trunk piston or pistons.
a double-acting steam engine having a connecting rod passing through a trunk to the piston.
Origin of trunk engine
1First recorded in 1860–65
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How to use trunk engine in a sentence
The “trunk-engine” was still another of the almost innumerable inventions of Watt.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. Thurston
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