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Location where rocket engines may be tested on the ground, under controlled conditions
A rocket engine test facility is a location where rocket engines may be tested on the ground, under controlled conditions. A ground test program is generally
Rocket_engine_test_facility
United States historic place
Rocket Engine Test Facility was the name of a facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center, formerly known as the Lewis Research Center, in Ohio. The purpose
Rocket_Engine_Test_Facility
NASA testing facility in Mississippi
Mississippi–Louisiana border. As of 2012[update], it is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. There are over 50 local, state, national, international, private
Stennis_Space_Center
Launch facilities used by SpaceX
suborbital test facility, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. It is also where it tests all Merlin and Raptor engines, and flight
SpaceX_facilities
SpaceX family of liquid-fuel rocket engines
Raptor is a family of rocket engines developed and manufactured by SpaceX. It is the third rocket engine in history designed with a full-flow staged combustion
SpaceX_Raptor
U.S. rocket engine test facility in New Mexico
White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a NASA rocket engine test facility and a resource for testing and evaluating potentially hazardous materials, space
White_Sands_Test_Facility
Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine - a proposed hybrid ramjet and rocket engine
Rocket Engine) was a concept under development by Reaction Engines Limited for a hypersonic precooled hybrid air-breathing rocket engine. The engine was
SABRE_(rocket_engine)
NASA research facility in Ohio
liquid rocket engines. The 6,400-acre (2,600 ha) NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility or just Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility
Glenn_Research_Center
Facilities
development and office facility near Seattle, Washington. By 2003 Blue Origin was buying land in west Texas for a rocket engine test facility and, subsequently
Blue_Origin_facilities
American public spaceflight company
atmosphere transition. In November 2022, Rocket Lab cut the ribbon on an engine test facility for the Archimedes engine at NASA's Stennis Space Center. In March
Rocket_Lab
US Nuclear thermal rocket engine project (1956–1973)
The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA; /ˈnɜːrvə/) was an American nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly
NERVA
Liquid fuel rocket engine
liquid-fuel rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid methane in an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab
Archimedes_(rocket_engine)
Rocket engine test facility
The S-IC Stage Static Facility, also known as Test Stand 4670 and the Advanced Engine Test Facility, at the George C. Marshall Spaceflight Center (MSFC)
Test_Stand_4670
Industrial research and development facilities in California
mid-1950s,[citation needed] designed and tested several rocket engines at the facility. They included engines for the Army's Redstone (an advanced short-range
Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory
NASA research facility in Virginia
propulsion engine design and performance. In 1934 the world's largest wind tunnel was constructed at Langley Field with a 30-by-60-foot (9.1 m × 18.3 m) test section;
Langley_Research_Center
NASA research facility in Southern California
served to cool it, similar to how a conventional rocket engine cools its nozzle. Also, instrumented crash test dummies were in the airplane for the impact
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Armstrong_Flight_Research_Center
Reusable superheavy-lift general-purpose launch vehicle
The facility has two main test stands: one horizontal stand for both engine types and one vertical stand for sea-level-optimized rocket engines. In the
SpaceX_Starship
ever developed Tested but never flown Most powerful Hydrogen-fueled engine ever conceived World's most powerful liquid fueled rocket engine Most powerful
Comparison of orbital rocket engines
Comparison_of_orbital_rocket_engines
Partially-reusable medium-lift launch vehicle
2025. Test firing of Neutron's Archimedes engine occurred at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. In September 2025, Rocket Lab held
Rocket_Lab_Neutron
American aerospace company
New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles
Blue_Origin
Soviet super heavy-lift launch vehicle (1965–1972)
eight and four hot staged engines respectively, planned to bring the rocket to low Earth orbit. Dangers of the complex engine cluster and fuel feeder systems
N1_(rocket)
Soviet launch vehicle
engine. It was designed to replace the Proton rocket, but lost a 1993 competition to the Angara rocket. A non-functional prototype ("structural test vehicle")
Energia_(rocket)
Facility used to test engines
An engine test stand is a facility used to develop, characterize and test engines. The facility, often offered as a product to automotive OEMs, allows
Engine_test_stand
1998 video game
Freeman kills a giant creature inside a rocket engine test facility and uses an underground monorail to reach a rocket silo. He launches a satellite to help
Half-Life_(video_game)
US Air Force base in California
Directorate maintains a rocket engine test facility on and around Leuhman Ridge, just east of Rogers Dry Lake. This facility traces its roots to early
Edwards_Air_Force_Base
Interplanetary radio communication station
rest of the facility was dismantled and knocked down. Its foundation, access road and parking area are all that remains of the facility. As of late 2016
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
Canberra_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex
Space Shuttle and SLS main engine
The RS-25, also known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine that was used on NASA's Space Shuttle and is used
RS-25
Weapons test site in San Diego, CA
Sycamore Canyon Test Facility is a rocket and weapons test site located east of MCAS Miramar in northern San Diego, in Scripps Ranch. A number of weapons
Sycamore_Canyon_Test_Facility
Indian semi-cryogenic rocket engine
future reusable rockets based on RLV technology demonstrations. The engine in September 2019 reportedly had become ready to begin testing in Ukraine and
SE-2000
Topics referred to by the same term
(commonly abbreviated RF), a baseball statistic Rocket engine test facility, also known as a rocket test range Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized
Range
Family of hybrid rocket engines
RocketMotorTwo (RM2) is a family of hybrid rocket engines developed for the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane. The first-generation
RocketMotorTwo
American super heavy-lift expendable rocket
one J-2 engines respectively. IBM and MSFC designed the rocket's instrument unit. The rocket first launched in the November 1967 Apollo 4 test flight.
Saturn_V
Type of rocket engine
The aerospike engine is a type of rocket engine that maintains its aerodynamic efficiency across a wide range of altitudes. It belongs to the class of
Aerospike_engine
Indian spaceflight company
rocket will use an upper stage cryogenic engine powered by the Dhawan-series rocket engine. On 22 December 2020, Skyroot tested the solid-fuel rocket
Skyroot_Aerospace
Two-stage small launch vehicle, 200-300 kg to LEO
Rutherford engines are the first electric-pump-fed engine to power an orbital-class rocket. Electron is often flown with a kickstage or Rocket Lab's Photon
Rocket_Lab_Electron
Supersonic atmospheric jet engine
In 1939, Merkulov did further ramjet tests using a two-stage rocket, the R-3. He developed the first ramjet engine for use as an auxiliary motor of an
Ramjet
US Air Force base near Tullahoma, Tennessee, United States
flight simulation test facilities in the world. The center operates 58 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space
Arnold_Air_Force_Base
United States historic place
The Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a building containing a control room and related computing and communications equipment areas at the Jet
Space Flight Operations Facility
Space_Flight_Operations_Facility
Large liquid methane fuelled staged-combustion rocket engine by Blue Origin
The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) is a liquid rocket engine developed by Blue Origin. It uses liquefied methane fuel and operates on an oxygen-rich staged combustion
BE-4
Reusable first-stage rocket developed by SpaceX
Before 2014, only two full-flow staged-combustion rocket engine designs had advanced enough to undergo testing: the Soviet RD-270 project in the 1960s and the
SpaceX_Super_Heavy
Rocket engine in SpaceX Falcon launch vehicles
Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX. They are currently a part of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, and were formerly
SpaceX_Merlin
American launch vehicle company
1999. A rocket engine test facility was successfully established in McGregor, Texas. There, the company conducted liquid-fueled engine tests, added several
Beal_Aerospace
Non-airbreathing engine used to propel a missile or vehicle
A rocket engine, also known as a rocket motor, is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass
Rocket_engine
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Edwards Air Force Base's Rocket Engine Test Facility) before being discharged in 1958. During his service, he secured
Owsley_Stanley
Method used to accelerate spacecraft
vacuum chamber to test fully. Rockets are usually tested at a rocket engine test facility well away from habitation and other buildings for safety reasons
Spacecraft_propulsion
United States historic place
in three steps: Engine testing Static rocket testing Test launches First, prototype engines are tested in a Rocket engine test facility, where the most
Redstone_Test_Stand
Aerospace manufacturer in the United Kingdom
production facility in Cumbernauld, the largest of its kind in the UK. In May 2022, Skyrora completed a 70 kN hot-fire test for its 3D printed rocket engine, which
Skyrora
Liquid hydrogen/oxygen rocket engine
the engine completed acceptance testing in early 2015. The BE-3PM variant is used on the New Shepard suborbital rocket, which made its first test flight
BE-3
Rocket engine
J-2, commonly known as Rocketdyne J-2, was a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on NASA's Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles. Built in the
Rocketdyne_J-2
Electrothermal thruster in development
Unit for the VASIMR Engine Successfully Completes Full Power Vacuum and Magnetic Field Tests at Ad Astra Rocket Company's Texas Facility" (PDF) (Press release)
Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magnetoplasma_Rocket
SpaceX private launch site
private launch site, is an industrial complex and rocket launch facility that serves as the main testing and production location for Starship launch vehicles
SpaceX_Starbase
American rocket engine design and production company
Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los
Rocketdyne
Overview of NASA field centers
after U.S. senator John C. Stennis. The center serves as a major rocket engine test facility and is used by government and commercial organizations. Johnson
NASA_facilities
Jet engine where combustion takes place in supersonic airflow
scramjet flight at Mach 10 using rocket engines to boost the test vehicle to hypersonic speeds. A series of scramjet ground tests was completed at NASA Langley
Scramjet
Rocket launch site on the Woomera Test Range in Australia
operational site at the RAAF Woomera Test Range, forming part of the Woomera Range Complex. Originally, LA5 functioned as a rocket launch site supporting a number
Woomera_Launch_Area_5
German New Space start-up
Helix rocket engine began in July 2022, with an integrated stage+engine system test of 280 seconds duration in March 2023. By May 2024, a hot fire test with
Rocket_Factory_Augsburg
Family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX for use on its Crewed Dragon spacecraft
propellant rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX. It is part of the SpaceX Draco family of rocket engines. A redundant array of eight SuperDraco engines provides
SuperDraco
Japanese medium-lift launch vehicle
the LE-9 main engine, which was designed to be less expensive to produce as part of a broader effort to lower launch costs. The rocket has a modular design:
H3_(rocket)
Australian space company
venture-funded Australian aerospace company that is developing hybrid-propellant rocket engines and associated technologies to support the deployment of a low-cost
Gilmour_Space_Technologies
Royal Air Force station in Cumbria, England
consisted of four concrete stands into which the engines could be mounted for test firing. Two rocket-firing stands themselves stood at Greymare Hills
RAF_Spadeadam
turbopump unit for a rocket engine with a thrust of 3000 N was developed. A total of 100 bench tests of liquid-propellant rockets were conducted using
Soviet_rocketry
American aerospace company
demonstrate rocket engine". Biesecker, Cal (August 2, 2023). "iRocket To Use Air Force Facility To Test High Thrust Technology For Reusable Rockets". Defense
IRocket
Science museum in Huntsville, Alabama
(DPS/APS) engines for the Lunar Module. Engines from the V-2 engine to NERVA to the Space Shuttle Main Engine are on display as well. The rocket park area
U.S._Space_&_Rocket_Center
One of the largest rocket engines to be designed
most powerful liquid-hydrogen-fueled liquid-fuel rocket engines to be designed and component-tested. It was originally developed during the 1950s by the
Aerojet_M-1
County in Mississippi, United States
is home to the John C. Stennis Space Center, NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. The county was severely damaged from Hurricane Katrina on August
Hancock_County,_Mississippi
American rocket used in the Apollo program during the 1960s and 70s
corporation at the Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans. It was powered by eight Rocketdyne H-1 rocket engines burning RP-1 fuel with liquid oxygen
Saturn_IB
Solid propellant rocket used by the Space Shuttle
double the most powerful single-combustion chamber liquid-propellant rocket engine ever flown, the Rocketdyne F-1. With a combined mass of about 1,180
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster
Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster
CDP in Mississippi, United States
properties. As of 2012[update], SSC is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. It also provides testing facilities for more than 30 different state, national
Pearlington,_Mississippi
Orbital launch vehicle by LandSpace
2019, LandSpace performed test firings of its liquid-methane and liquid-oxygen fuelled TQ-12 rocket engine at its test facility at Huzhou, Zhejiang province
Zhuque-2
American super heavy-lift expendable rocket first stage of Saturn V, test unit
Administration, to be a static test rocket. The main role of the S-IC-T was the integrated testing of the five liquid fuel rocket engines to be used in the Apollo
S-IC-T
Russian and Soviet rocket family
version of the rocket called Molniya-M. The flight ended six minutes after the launch because of a failure of the third stage engine or an unfulfilled
Soyuz_(rocket_family)
Military technology test facility in Utah
Tekoi Rocket Test Range is a former solid fuel rocket motor test and calibration site operated by Hercules Aerospace near the Utah Test and Training Range
Tekoi
American rocketry company
shot to test its ignition sensitivity.[citation needed] In June 1999, Rotary Rocket announced that it would use a derivative of the Fastrac engine under
Rotary_Rocket
Orbital launch vehicle by Space Pioneer
Tianhuo-12 (TH-12) engine, designed for the Tianlong-3 rocket, successfully completed a full-duration hot fire test. The test utilized an engine in the flight
Tianlong-3
American short-range ballistic missile
Ocean weapons test Hardtack Teak. The Redstone was a direct descendant of the German V-2 rocket, developed primarily by a team of German rocket engineers
PGM-11_Redstone
Russian heavy-lift rocket
The rocket uses a Kerolox propellant mixture. The first stage is powered by the four-chambered RD-171MV, the most powerful liquid fuel engine in the
Soyuz-5_(rocket)
Rural property used to produce motion pictures and television
Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) experimental Nuclear Reactor and Rocket Engine Test Facility. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the State of California
Movie_ranch
Development history of the SpaceX Starship vehicle
Congress, a Raptor engine fired for the first time. At the event, Musk announced SpaceX was developing a new rocket using Raptor engines called the Interplanetary
SpaceX Starship design history
SpaceX_Starship_design_history
NASA super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used in the Artemis Program
ex-Shuttle RS-25 engines. Attached to the core are two Northrop Grumman five-segment Solid Rocket Boosters, built for the Ares vehicles, tested on Ares I-X
Space_Launch_System
Medium-lift expendable rocket by Northrop Grumman
Firefly Aerospace based on the company's MLV rocket using composite structures and seven Miranda engines to increase payload capacity. The second stage
Antares_(rocket)
Rocket engine that uses both liquid / gaseous and solid fuel
states of matter), hybrid rockets tend to fail more benignly than liquids or solids. Like liquid rocket engines, hybrid rocket motors can be shut down easily
Hybrid-propellant_rocket
Development facility of JAXA
rocket engine test facility High pressure liquid oxygen turbo pump test facility Rocket engine high altitude performance test facility Ram jet engine
Kakuda_Space_Center
Canadian space launch facility
Taiga rocket for the facility's maiden flight from SLC-02, and has future plans to launch its 26-metre orbital rocket Tundra at the same facility from
Atlantic_Spaceport_Complex
Soviet rocket engine
were rocket engines developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the Kuznetsov Design Bureau for the Soviet space program's ill-fated N1 Moon rocket. The
NK-33
Aerospace company headquartered in Romania
of engine tests using the Stabilo rocket engine in order to validate the design for the Helen rocket. The first attempt to launch the Helen rocket took
ARCAspace
Liquid fueled rocket engine
liquid-fuel, upper-stage rocket engine in development[update] by Avio on behalf of European Space Agency for use on Vega E. The engine is a derivative of the
M10_(rocket_engine)
American aerospace company
November 2014, and purchased 215 acres (87 ha) of land for an engine test and manufacturing facility in Briggs, Texas, 50 miles (80 km) north of Austin. In 2014
Firefly_Aerospace
Upcoming crewed mission of the Artemis program
System (SLS) rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will test rendezvous and docking operations between Orion and test versions of commercial
Artemis_III
UK-based military research site at RAF Westcott
Royal Ordnance. In 2017, Reaction Engines Ltd began construction of a test facility to develop their SABRE rocket engine, intended for the Skylon reusable
Rocket Propulsion Establishment
Rocket_Propulsion_Establishment
United Launch Alliance launch vehicle
September 2015, it was announced BE-4 rocket engine production would be expanded[clarification needed] to allow more testing. The following January, ULA was
Vulcan_Centaur
U.S. project to build a nuclear thermal rocket
without the need to adjust the drums. Project Rover tests demonstrated that nuclear rocket engines could be shut down and restarted many times without
Project_Rover
Launch system that only uses one rocket stage
project to develop and build a test jig of the Sabre engine to prove the engines performance across its air-breathing and rocket modes. In November 2012, it
Single-stage-to-orbit
American aerospace and AI company
SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas, is used for rocket engine development and testing. Every SpaceX rocket engine and thruster
SpaceX
First South Korean orbital launch vehicle developed domestically
completed with the addition of a three-stage engine combustion test facility and a combustor combustion test facility. However, the problem of combustion instability
Nuri_(rocket)
Aircraft and rocket engine manufacturer based in France
It designs, manufactures and maintains engines for commercial and military aircraft as well as rocket engines for launch vehicles and satellites. Some
Safran_Aircraft_Engines
Russian rocket engine
Двигатель-180 (РД-180), romanized: Raketnyy Dvigatel-180, lit. 'Rocket Engine-180') is a rocket engine that was designed and built in Russia. It features a dual
RD-180
Rocket under development by Firefly Aerospace and Northrop Grumman
reported that the development was progressing smoothly, with the rockets' Miranda engines beginning full production in June. In the summer of 2024, Firefly
Eclipse_(rocket)
Second launch of SpaceX Starship
Raptor engines to propel the rocket toward its intended landing location. During this burn, several engines began shutting down before one engine failed
Starship_flight_test_2
Effort by SpaceX to make rockets that can fly multiple times
20 ha) concrete launch facility at its Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas to support the Grasshopper flight test program. Grasshopper
SpaceX reusable launch system development program
SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_development_program
Organization testing and launching rockets
static test firing and launching; small, medium, and large; solid, hybrid, and liquid; commercial and experimental rockets. Their static test firing and
Friends_of_Amateur_Rocketry
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, German, Italian
Dweller by the Rock; From the Rock Fortress; Stone Camp; Rest
Female
Welsh
Welsh pet form of Greek Hagne (English Agnes), NEST means "chaste; holy."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a spinner or a maker of distaffs, from an agent derivative of Middle English rok ‘distaff’ (see Rock).German : from a Germanic personal name based on hrÅd ‘renown’.habitational name from a farm named Rokken in Pustertal, south Tyrol (Italy).German (Röcker) : from a topographic name or a place name Röcke (formerly Roke) near Bückeburg, Lower Saxony.
Boy/Male
English American
Rock.
Boy/Male
English American
West town. Surname.
Boy/Male
French, German, Hebrew, Italian
Rest; Rock
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rocker.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, German, Italian, Jamaican
Rock; Form of Rockne; From the Rock Fortress; Stone Camp; Rest
Surname or Lastname
German (also Rücker)
German (also Rücker) : nickname from Middle High German rucken ‘to move or draw’.North German : nickname from Middle Low German rucker ‘thief’, ‘greedy or acquisitive person’.German : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Rudiger.English : variant of Rocker.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Rock.German (Röcke) : variant of Rock 4.
Girl/Female
Greek
Rock.
Male
Turkish
Turkish name ENGIN means "vast."
Boy/Male
French
Rock.
Boy/Male
British, English, Jamaican
From the Rock Meadow; Rocky Field
Female
English
Short form of English Tessa, TESS means "harvester."Â
Surname or Lastname
Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a refiner, from Yiddish test ‘crucible’, ‘melting pot’.English : nickname for someone with a large or otherwise remarkable head, from Old French teste ‘head’.
Boy/Male
Australian, British, Chinese, English
West Town; Surname; From the Western Stream
Boy/Male
French
Rock.
Boy/Male
Greek American
Well-born. Famous bearer: Prince Eugene of Savoy; American playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Girl/Female
Greek
Wellborn. Feminine of Eugene.
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
Surname or Lastname
French
French : variant of Rivière, Rivoire, or Rivier, topographic name for someone living on the banks of a river, French rivier ‘bank’, or habitational name from any of the many places in France named with this word.English : nickname from Middle English revere ‘reiver’, ‘robber’.English : topographic name for someone who lived on the brow of a hill, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter evere ‘at the brow or edge’ (from Old English yfer, efer ‘edge’) or a habitational name from a place named with this phrase, as for example River in West Sussex or Rivar in Wiltshire.Jewish (from Italy) : habitational name from a place in Mantua named Revere.The MA patriot Paul Revere (1734–1818), who in April 1775 undertook a famous ride from Boston to Lexington to warn of the approach of British troops, was a silversmith and instrument maker. He was descended from French Huguenots called Rivoire.
Girl/Female
Australian
Green
Boy/Male
Muslim
Spinner
Girl/Female
Tamil
Jalabala | ஜ஼லாபலா
A river
Boy/Male
Indian, Parsi, Telugu
Purity; Gift from God
Boy/Male
Hindi
Shining Moon.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Modern, Tamil, Telugu
The Earth; Love of God
Boy/Male
Hindu
Girl/Female
Teutonic
Battle maiden.
Boy/Male
Gaelic Irish
From the meadow.
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
ROCKET ENGINE-TEST-FACILITY
n.
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
imp. & p. p.
of Rocket
v. t.
To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
v. i.
To make a confused noise or racket.
v. t.
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
v. t.
To assault with an engine.
v. t.
To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.
n.
A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
n.
Rocket larkspur. See below.
n.
Alt. of Testa
a.
Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.
v. t.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
n.
One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
v. t.
To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.