garden engine

noun

garden engine

noun

1

Historical A 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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