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saddle tank

saddle tank is the alternative form of saddletank.

Meaning of saddletank

Noun

saddletank (plural saddletanks)

  1. A style of tank locomotive in which the water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle.
    • The smart little locomotives, mostly 0-6-0 saddletanks, which are always busy shunting traffic amongst the vast dockside warehouses, belong to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway, a line of considerable importance.1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 488
  2. An early style of ballast tank submarine in which the tank sits on top like a saddle.

Forms of saddle tank

pluralsaddle tanks

Questions about saddle tank

What is saddle tank the alternative form of?
Saddle tank is the alternative form of saddletank.

Words near saddle tank in the dictionary

  1. saddle stapler
  2. saddle staplers
  3. saddle stitch
  4. saddle stitches
  5. saddle tan
  6. saddle tank
  7. saddle tanks
  8. saddle tramp
  9. saddle tramps
  10. saddle tree
  11. saddle trees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saddle tank (page history and authors); saddletank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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