Definitions of machinery

1. machines or machine systems collectively

2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.

3. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

4. Engines and other appliances collectively, or the parts of them; any means by which something is kept in action or the result desired is obtained.

5. Machines in general: the parts of a machine: means for keeping in action: supernatural agency in a poem.

6. Machines in general; parts of a machine.

7. The parts of a machine; machines collectively.

8. Mechanical combination; the parts of a machine; machines in general; superhuman agency introduced into a poem for the purpose of solving difficulties.

9. The works or component parts of a machine; machines in general; complicated routine or management; the superhuman beings introduced into a poem, & c., to solve a difficulty.