enginery

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/

Definition of enginery

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
    “Training his devilish enginery.”
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noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
    “Training his devilish enginery.”
  2. (archaic, countable, uncountable)The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
    “[B]ehold / Not diſtant far with heavie pace the Foe / Approaching groſs and huge; in hollow Cube / Training his deviliſh Enginrie, impal'd / On every ſide with ſhaddowing Squadrons Deep, / To hide the fraud.”
  3. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
    “To play some image on the gaping crowd, Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose, Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome”
    “'Mid that hush of soul Music from viewless harps shall visit thee, Such as thou never heard'st amid the din Of earth's coarse enginery, by toil and care Urged on, without reprieve.”

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Etymology

From engine + -ry.

Anagrams of enginery

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