garden engine

English

Noun

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.