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saddletank

saddletank noun: a style of tank locomotive in which the water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle.

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 saddletank

pluralsaddletanks
alternative formsaddle tank

Origin of saddletank

From saddle + tank.

Questions about saddletank

What does saddletank mean?
Saddletank means a style of tank locomotive in which the water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle.
What part of speech is saddletank?
Saddletank is a noun.
What is the plural of saddletank?
The plural of saddletank is saddletanks.

Words near saddletank in the dictionary

  1. saddleskirt
  2. saddleskirts
  3. saddlesore
  4. saddlesoreness
  5. saddlest
  6. saddletank
  7. saddletanks
  8. saddleth
  9. saddletramp
  10. saddletramps
  11. saddletree

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