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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 engine driver
 火車司機

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 En·gine n.
 1.
 Note: (Pronounced, in this sense, ) Natural capacity; ability; skill. [Obs.]
 A man hath sapiences three,
 Memory, engine, and intellect also.   --Chaucer.
 2. Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; a machine; an agent.
 You see the ways the fisherman doth take
 To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?   --Bunyan.
    Their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust.   --Shak.
 3. Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. “Terrible engines of death.”
 4. Mach. A compound machine by which any physical power is applied to produce a given physical effect.
 Engine driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive.
 Engine lathe. Mach. See under Lathe.
 Engine tool, a machine tool. --J. Whitworth.
 Engine turning Fine Arts, a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.
 Note:The term engine is more commonly applied to massive machines, or to those giving power, or which produce some difficult result. Engines, as motors, are distinguished according to the source of power, as steam engine, air engine, electro-magnetic engine; or the purpose on account of which the power is applied, as fire engine, pumping engine, locomotive engine; or some peculiarity of construction or operation, as single-acting or double-acting engine, high-pressure or low-pressure engine, condensing engine, etc.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 engine driver
      n : the operator of a railway locomotive [syn: engineer, locomotive
          engineer, railroad engineer]