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Gas engine

noun

An internal-combustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor.

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"Gas engine" Quotes from Famous Books

... we were at the pole when I saw that the gas engine had stopped," went on the professor. "The attraction of the earth-magnets at the pole exerted such a strong influence on the iron and steel that the gas machine could not work. At last I have reached ...

— Through the Air to the North Pole - or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch • Roy Rockwood

... backed him up to the starting pole again. But he was no story-teller. He skipped like a cheap gas engine. We had to take the story away from him piece by piece. He'd dodged his Smiths down a side street, it seems, on the plea that there weren't any more Smiths coming—and they might as well go over to his ...

— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch

Words linked to "Gas engine" : internal-combustion engine, ice