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saddletank

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Etymology

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From saddle +‎ tank.

Noun

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saddletank (plural saddletanks)

  1. (rail transport) A style of tank locomotive in which the water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle.
    • 1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 488:
      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.
  2. (naval architecture) An early style of ballast tank submarine in which the tank sits on top like a saddle.

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