Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. An electrical motor, which is part of a modern car or truck, etc., which is used to initially turn the internal combustion engine of the vehicle to make it start.
WordNet
n. an electric motor for starting an engine [syn: starter, starting motor]
Usage examples of "starter motor".
He showed that when he switched off the thundering din of that one engine and turned with a grim concentration to the job of winding the armature of a starter motor.
Unfortunately, the first thing I had to do after lifting the hood was take off my jacket and ram it down onto the starter motor.
Axle and bearing assemblies, brake system, starter motor, and alternator, all were probed and rejected.
They had to use the main engines as a starter motor for it, so the Chief was telling me.
The pulsating, grinding laughter of the starter motor brought Julia to the kitchen window.
The gas-turbine engine roared, the high-speed starter motor whined, and the two forty-eight-foot rotor blades began to turn.
So instead of using the wag's starter motor, the group had to push the wag while J.
While other workers screw in the air filter (seventeen seconds) and attach the starter motor (twenty-six seconds) and put on the flywheel.
I got about eight tons of engine block to heat up, or we're gonna destroy the starter motor.
She kept trying, jamming her foot down on the gas pedal, turning the key until at last the starter motor moaned in protest.
The starter motor spun the turbine rotor, and the fuel pump was actuated.
From inside he opened the hood and clipped a wire jumper from the positive battery terminal to the starter motor.