Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stopping-place on a railroad, provided with a tank for supplying locomotives with water. It is often detached from a regular way-station and outside the yard limits.
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Examples
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When the chief announced that the new operator was from the east, and was being sent to the little foothills tank-station of Bonepile, there was a fresh outburst of hilarity.
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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Reedy jumped up, gave his head a cordial fling, and grabbed Jim Crill's hand as warmly as though he were chairman of the committee welcoming the candidate for vice-president to a tank-station stop.
The Desert Fiddler 1902
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