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Machinery consisting of engines collectively
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enginery
Word definitions for enginery in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) machinery made up of engines; instruments of war. 2 (context archaic English) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. 3 (context archaic English) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. machinery consisting of engines collectively
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enginery \En"gine*ry\, n. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. --Milton. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. --Milton. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. --Shenstone.
Usage examples of enginery.
About the hall stood numerous engineries of wood and stone and metal such as Fulbra had never beheld, and having a formidable aspect with their heavy chains, their beds of iron teeth and their cords and pulleys of fish skin.
Babbage's very first Engine, now an honored relic, was still less than thirty years old, but the swift progression of Enginery had swept a whole generation in its wake, like some mighty locomotive of the mind.
A Modus is a gambling-system, a secret trick of mathematical Enginery, to defeat the odds-makers.
For this reason, I concluded, we kinotropists must be numbered among Britain's most adept programmers of Enginery of any sort, and virtually all advances in the compression of data have originated as kinotropic applications.