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saddletanks

saddletanks is the plural 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.

Questions about saddletanks

What is saddletanks the plural of?
Saddletanks is the plural of saddletank.

Words near saddletanks in the dictionary

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

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