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Engineer's spanner was old London Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence (tanner).
Steel bar attached to cars and engines as a hand bold
Brokers
Locomotive engineer
Mechanical Engineer.
Road foreman of engines, traveling engineer. Sometimes called traveling man
Locomotive engineer
Any employee (usually a fireman) who services engines, especially at division points and terminals. Also called ashpit engineer
Speedy engineer
Locomotive engineer
Locomotive engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Chief engineer
Engineer, so called from the large initial on membership buttons of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Engineers and stokers is London Cockney rhyming slang for bailiffs (brokers).
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n.
An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
n.
One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
n.
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
conj.
If; though. See An, conj.
v. t.
To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.
v. t.
To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Engineer
n.
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
n.
Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.
imp. & p. p.
of Engineer
n.
Engines, in general; instruments of war.
n.
An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.
n.
The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
n.
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
n.
The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
n.
A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
adv.
Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
v. t.
To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.
n.
Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
n.
One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager.
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