saddletank
nounEtymology From saddle + tank.
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Rail transport, Railways, Transport 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:
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Architecture, Government, Military, Naval, Navy, Politics, War An early style of ballast tank submarine in which the tank sits on top like a saddle.
- Related terms
- pannier tank