garden engine

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garden engine (plural garden engines)

  1. (historical) A wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
    • 1859, Shirley Hibberd, The Town Garden, page 53:
      […] 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.
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