Tank n.
1. A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
2. A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
We stood in the afterglow on the bank of the tank and saw the ducks come home. --F. Remington.
The tanks are full and the grass is high. --Lawson.
Tank engine, a locomotive which carries the water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender.
Tank iron, plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron.
Tank worm Zool., a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.
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tank engine
n : a locomotive that carries its own fuel and water; no tender
is needed [syn: tank locomotive]