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portable engine

portable engine noun: a type of steam engine with four wheels that could be hauled from one site to another, and usually not designed to be driven. The flywheel was used to drive machinery.

portable engine: a type of steam engine with four wheels that could be hauled from one site to another, and usually...
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Noun

portable engine (plural portable engines)

  1. (historical) A type of steam engine with four wheels that could be hauled from one site to another, and usually not designed to be driven. The flywheel was used to drive machinery.

portable engine meaning in Tamil

portable engine in Tamil

கைப்பொறி

Forms of portable engine

pluralportable engines

Questions about portable engine

What does portable engine mean?
Portable engine means a type of steam engine with four wheels that could be hauled from one site to another, and usually not designed to be driven. The flywheel was used to drive machinery.
What is portable engine in Tamil?
Portable engine in Tamil is கைப்பொறி. See Portable engine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is portable engine?
Portable engine is a noun.
What is the plural of portable engine?
The plural of portable engine is portable engines.

Words near portable engine in the dictionary

  1. portabilization
  2. portable
  3. portable art
  4. portable computer
  5. portable computers
  6. portable engine
  7. portable engines
  8. portable executable
  9. portable executables
  10. Portable Network Graphics
  11. portable phone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: portable engine (page history and authors); portable engine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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