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tank car
noun
- Railroads. a car containing one or more tanks for the transportation of liquids, gases, or granular solids.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tank car1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences
We also designed a tank car originally for the shipment of chlorpicrin and later used it for shipping sulphur monochloride.
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To turn back, however, meant miles to water, and we had just sighted the tank car.
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We had a canteen and were only five miles from a tank car with water in it!
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Just ahead of our tank car, was a carload of valuable horses.
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The Committee knows of no direct method for sampling a hard-frozen tank car of tallow in a satisfactory manner.
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