engrener
Meanings
Verb
1. (of poultry) to fatten by feeding grain (transitive, dated)
2. to thresh (transitive, agriculture, obsolete)
3. to fill with grain (ambitransitive)
4. to set in motion; to start; to begin (ambitransitive)
5. to engage or mesh (come into gear with) (transitive)
6. to be caught on a slippery slope (intransitive)
Examples2
engrener une affaire
to begin an affair/undertaking
engrener la trémie d’un moulin
to fill the hopper of a windmill with grain