Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also engine of bliss, ...of seduction) the penis.

1616		Jonson Devil is an Ass II i: It creaks his engine.
c.1621		Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase III i: ros.: Bless your manhood: They say ye are a Gentleman of Action, A fare accomplishe’d man; and a rare Engineer. [...] mir.: Yes forsooth; I have a speedy trick: please you to try it: My Engine will dispatch ye instantly.
1660		Wandring Whore I 7: The flame whereof was quickly abated by drawing a codpiece engine, and giving her two or three Coolers.
1672		S. Butler ‘Dildoides’ in Rochester & Others Works (1739) 185: Which of us able to prevent is His girl from lying with his ’Prentice, / Unless we other means provide / For Nature to be satisfy’d? / And what more proper than this Engine.
1689		‘Here, Here, Here is Pig and Pork’ in Pepys Ballads (1987) II 315: Untill his Catholick Engine was rais’d, then flat on the Bed, on her Back He laid her, and gave her Instructions, till he made the Cords to crack.
1698		‘No True Love between Man and Woman’ in Poetical Remaines of Rochester, Etherege, et al. 112: When a Man to a Woman comes creeping and cringing [...] ’Tis Priapus inspires the Talkative Eng’ne.
a.1700		T. Brown in Rochester et al. Works 122: ‘Marriage’ To cure the damn’d Lust of your Wife’s Titilation, You may use all the Engines and Pumps in the Nation, As well you may piss out the last Conflagration.
1708		N. Ward Adam and Eve 48: [Her] craving Lust, ... too fiery to be quench’d by the dilatory Emissions of one single Engine.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy II 130: The Doctor ... That has warm Engines planted, At many a Postern gate.
1740		Dialogue between a Married Lady and a Maid III: He opened the Slit of my Commodity, and conveyed the Head of the Engine to it.
1772		C. Crinkum Ænigmatical Repository 11: The engine of mischief, with dug of a cow, / And taylor’s delight, are delicious you know.
c.1788		‘R. Birch’ ‘Venus School-Mistress’ in Pettit & Spedding 18C British Erotica III (2004) 11: This lecherous scene lasted about ten minutes, the man all the while thrusting his engine as far into her as he could.
c.1850		Peeping Tom (London) 13 52/2: A gentleman, on whom nature had bestowed so noble an engine of seduction.
1879		‘Sub-Umbra, or Sport among the She-noodles’ in Pearl 2 Aug. 2: I felt her dear lips again pressing and sucking my engine of love.
1889		C. Deveureux Venus in India in Victorian Erotic Tales (1995) 108: Every mad thrust met with a corresponding buck which had the effect of taking my engine into its extreme root!
1894		C. Harpur Adventures of Lady Harpur I 17: He lifted me in his arms, staked on the engine of bliss.
1898		Forbidden Fruit n.p.: His great big engine bursting into me and stretching poor Fanny till she was all torn and bleeding.
1903		Kate Percival Life & Amours I 60: His engine of love had penetrated my slit.

2. the vagina.

c.1614		Beaumont & Fletcher Bonduca II iv: dec.: For you [...] Whose maw is never crammed, I’ll have an engine— judas: A wench, sweet captain.
1672		J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 19: Though they came out of Jove’s own Twist, / Or from a Goddess engine pist.
1675		T. Duffet Psyche Debauch’d Epilogue: She-Weavers [with their] lawless Engines, . . . That like dark Lanthorns lurk in little Room, And manage twenty Shuttles with one Loom.
1707		Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem III ii: The nymph that with her twice ten-hundred pounds, / With brazen engine hot, and quoif clear-starched, / Can fire the guest in warming of the bed.
1713		W. King York Spy 19: Call a Prostitute as many Proper Names, as she has Hairs upon her Letchery-laying Engine.
1723		‘Love-Letters between a Nobleman & Mr. Wilson’ in 18C British Erotica V 8: Direct me how to deceive her, as to the Knowledge she already has got, having made her Engine my Creature.
a.1731		N. Ward ‘Gammar Bouncly’ Miscellaneous Works IV 176: By the Water-Engine in her Tail, Conquer’d the Fire of Love or that of Ale.
a.1749		Robertson of Struan ‘A Lady who was twice married, to Hymen’ in Poems (1752) 84: I’ve got an Engine limber like a Clout.
1972		(con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 181: He stripped to the buff [...] and positioned himself at her engine end.

3. (US drugs) the equipment used by an opium smoker.

1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 36/2: Engine, an opium pipe in use by a smoker.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 65/2: Engine, the. The opium pipe and paraphernalia. [Ibid.] 116/2: Kick the engine around. To smoke the opium pipe.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
1975		Hardy & Cull Drug Lang. and Lore.