re-engining

English

Noun

re-engining (countable and uncountable, plural re-enginings)

  1. The fitting of a new or different engine.
    • 1958 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 412:
      To me it seems that extensive investment in relatively low-powered units may have the same ultimate result of motive power shortage as that which afflicts the London Midland Region today, and which has compelled the re-engining of some of the earlier multiple-unit diesel train sets.

Verb

re-engining

  1. present participle and gerund of re-engine
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