auxiliary engine

1. 1.

   (nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass)

   Synonymsdonkey engine

   Broaderengine

   ship

Questions about auxiliary engine

What does auxiliary engine mean?

auxiliary engine means "(nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass)".

What is another word for auxiliary engine?

Close synonyms include donkey engine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auxiliary engine a common word?

auxiliary engine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.