Associations to the word «Carburettor»

Wiktionary

CARBURETTOR, noun. (AU) (NZ) (UK) A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporised and mixed with air prior to ignition.

Dictionary definition

CARBURETTOR, noun. Mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope