What is "auxiliary engine"

Usage examples of "auxiliary engine".

On the bottom deck were air and water storage and purification plants, auxiliary engine room, and a compartment housing the repelatron gear.

Leie peered at the smaller vessel that had the Prosper in tow, its tiny auxiliary engine chuffing at the strain.

I could hear old Atty banging and swearing in the auxiliary engine room just below us.

A quicker method, Lacy told Bucher, would be to open the cooling water intakes and outlets in the main engine room and cut a hole into the auxiliary engine room from the main engine room.

Lastly, each gun had an auxiliary engine that could propel it along at a brisk twenty-four kilometers per hour without the need for a light truck to serve as a prime mover.

Lieutenant Commander Orthis, while under the influence of liquor, has destroyed auxiliary engine and opened exterior intake valve Lunar Eighth Ray buoyancy tank.

When the charms of simple technology paled and Ocala enjoyed a brief spurt of highly sophisticated manufacturing, Kyllikki acquired a solar powered auxiliary engine that drove a pair of retractable cycloidal impeller rotors, similar to those in the all-terrain vehicles that the Rebels had originally brought with them from the Milieu.

Deckhands cast off the boat's mooring warps, and vibration in the deck betokened the operation of a small auxiliary engine.

To the left, a schooner was moving out along the channel, sails furled, running on its auxiliary engine.