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tank engines

tank engines is the plural of tank engine.

Meaning of tank engine

Noun

tank engine (plural tank engines)

  1. A steam locomotive that carries its fuel and water containers on the locomotive frames rather than in a separate tender.
    • Train journeys were not long in terms of distance, and having regard to these factors, the tank engine inevitably preponderated. [...] Among tank engines, the 0-6-2 wheel arrangement was by far the most numerous, there being nearly 450 of this arrangement, which offers the advantage of good power...1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161
    Synonyms:
    tank locomotive

Questions about tank engines

What is tank engines the plural of?
Tank engines is the plural of tank engine.

Words near tank engines in the dictionary

  1. tank destroyer
  2. tank destroyers
  3. tank drama
  4. tank dramas
  5. tank engine
  6. tank engines
  7. tank farm
  8. tank farms
  9. tank iron
  10. tank killer
  11. tank killers

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