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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
twin-engined
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A twin-engined fighter is a beast, I told Messerschmitt he should go back to the drawing board.
▪ A little twin-engined plane buzzed overhead, Brian'd know what kind.
▪ By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters, joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters.
▪ In 1935 Hollis Williams initiated the design of a 10-seat, twin-engined, low wing airliner, the ST-18.
▪ Now he has two air ambulances - a twin-engined plane and a helicopter.
▪ The two twin-engined aeroplanes were trapped behind the Citation jet.
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twin-engined

a. (alternative form of twin-engine English)

Usage examples of "twin-engined".

Fast, no-tail rotor, twin-engined helicopter with a top speed of 170 miles an hour.

The PBM-3R Mariner was the unarmed transport version of the standard PBM Mariner, a deep-hulled, twin-engined gull-winged mono-plane.

The PBM-3R Mariner was the unarmed transport version of the standard PBM Mariner, a deep-hulled, twin-engined gull-winged mono­plane.

Not a Messerschmitt or the twin-engined P38s, or the Junkers they saw and heard from time to time.

Aside from twin-engined PBYs, large and noisy, there were very few amphibians at the base, and he hadn't come close to getting one of them.

Shasa brought the rest of the guests up from Cape Town in the twin-engined Queen Air.

The jet needed a thousand metres of metalled runway to make a safe landing, whereas the twin-engined Beechcraft could sneak into the short grass strip at Chizora with a skilful pilot at the controls.

As he lifted the big twin-engined machine into the air, he drew deeply on the cigar.