“engineer's”

The following 5 entries include the term engineer's.

engineer's brake valve

noun

: a valve in the cab of a locomotive for operating the air brake

engineer's chain

noun

: a chain (see chain sense 1c(1)) 50 or 100 feet long consisting of one-foot links

engineer's hammer

noun

: any of various hand hammers used by engineers and metalworkers and resembling a machinist's hammer but heavier

engineer's level

noun

engineer's scale

noun

: a scale that is commonly of triangular cross section and has different decimal scales on its edges


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