garden engine

noun

A wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.

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Meanings

noungarden engine (plural garden engines)

plural garden engines

  1. historicalA wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.

    […] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.

    1859, Shirley Hibberd, The Town Garden, page 53
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