man engine

Fetched 2026-10-29 (live).

Synonyms: malengine, gas engine, ion engine, tank engine, bank engine, cam engine, mid engine, car engine

Antonyms: malengine, gas engine, ion engine, tank engine, bank engine, cam engine, mid engine, car engine

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. A mechanical lift for raising and lowering people through considerable distances; specifically , a device by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft, consisting of a series of landings or sollars in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A person steps from a landing to a shelf and is raised or lowered to the next landing, upon which they then step, and so on, travelling by successive stages.

Source: Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wiktionary) · cached copy, not a rewrite.