The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gasoline engine \Gas"o*line en"gine\, or Gasolene engine \Gas"o*lene en"gine\ . (Mach.) A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.
WordNet
n. an internal-combustion engine that burns gasoline; most automobiles are driven by gasoline engines
Usage examples of "gasoline engine".
A powerful gasoline engine was the chief motive power, though there was an auxiliary storage battery, which would operate an electrical motor and send the ship along for more than twentyfour hours in case of accident to the gasoline engine.
The gasoline engine operating the bullwheel walking beam pump device was one which sputtered three times, then back-fired loudly.
While he did that, I fired up the gasoline engine and made sure the prospector was pumping water.
His flashlight beam gave him a quick explanation of where the Condor got his electrical power: a heavy-duty generator run by a gasoline engine, mounted on a rubber-tired vehicle of some sort for portability.
It had been built sometime in the twenties or thirties, he figured because it had a gasoline engine attached.
The lowered air pressure, half that of Earth, combined with the high relative oxygen level to turn what would have been a narrow jet of flame into a fireball which exploded across the open area like the flame-front filling the cylinder of a gasoline engine on the power stroke.
Back on the deck the gasoline engine throbbed reassuringly, its pump cascading a flood of water over the side.
They clattered down the stairs and a moment later Reacher heard the sound of a gasoline engine starting up directly below.
Air hoses from a new-looking gasoline engine and pressure pump were connected to them.
The gasoline engine was louder than the SEAL could have wished, but there was still plenty of commotion going on across the harbor to the southeast, and he doubted that anybody was paying him any attention.
The pump house, a large wooden shed, contained a gasoline engine geared to a large rotary pump.
The van had its own electrical generator, driven by a gasoline engine.
The van had its own electrical gen-erator, driven by a gasoline engine.
It was intended to replace the Sikorsky H-19 and H-34, which had a reciprocating gasoline engineŽ.
Ed Morin, getting the gasoline engine started on the power generator, joined them a moment later.