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  • n  a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)

  • A beamy, 35-foot Navy cutter was moving steadily by, showing neither smoke nor sail and emitting a "put-put-put" altogether too faint to be coming from a gasoline motor .
  • The put-put goes out and the battery is very low.
  • Over Lake Union, at Seattle, last week put-putted a great seaplane; its propeller moved not, its engine was dead.
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  • Threshermen’s show honors Will County’s farming roots
    As she rested in the shade of a pavilion, Lynda Lambert took in the scene around her Friday at the Round Barn Farm in Manhattan. “It’s kind of neat to hear the ‘put-put’ of the tractor,” she said as a few went by. “It gets into your blood.” There was a lot more to be seen and heard and learned at the farm over the weekend than the “put-put” of the old tractors. There was the hissing and ...
    July 21, 2013 - The Herald News

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