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garden engine

garden engine noun: a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.

Noun

garden engine (plural garden engines)

  1. (historical) A wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
    • […] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.1859, Shirley Hibberd, The Town Garden, page 53

Forms of garden engine

pluralgarden engines

Questions about garden engine

What does garden engine mean?
Garden engine means a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
What part of speech is garden engine?
Garden engine is a noun.
What is the plural of garden engine?
The plural of garden engine is garden engines.

Words near garden engine in the dictionary

  1. garden eels
  2. garden egg
  3. garden eggs
  4. garden endive
  5. garden endives
  6. garden engine
  7. garden engines
  8. garden escape
  9. garden escapes
  10. Garden Farms
  11. garden fleahopper

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