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Water tank   /wˈɔtər tæŋk/   Listen
Water tank

noun
1.
A tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet.  Synonym: cistern.



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"Water tank" Quotes from Famous Books



... THE WATER TANK is seen frequently along the route of the railroads and plenty of water must be taken on and carried in the engine tender to make steam which is the power used to drive the ...
— Child's First Picture Book • Anonymous
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... savage, and are very hard to manage. Some fine specimens were formerly in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. They ate all kinds of vegetables and grass, and slept nearly all day, generally lying half in and half out of the big water tank provided ...
— Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
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... the road himself, to the water tank, where half a dozen empties lay on a side-track ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London
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... stripped to underwear and put on the heat-suit from his bag. He filled its canteens from the boat's water tank. He turned on the tiny, battery-powered motors. The suit ballooned out. It was intended for short periods of intolerable heat. The motors kept it inflated—away from his skin—and cooled its interior by the evaporation ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
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... water out," she said, rising wearily. "Will we be obliged to hire a watchman to camp by our water tank? This is serious, boys. The unwritten law of the desert would condemn whoever did this to a lariat and a yucca palm. Still, we don't know who did it. It's too dark to find tracks or to learn anything about it. It's seventeen miles ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
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... car, Halliday, who sat in the seat behind Mead and the sheriff, had walked to the front end of the car and was drinking at the ice-water tank when the train came to a sudden stop. He went to the front platform and looked up the track to see what was the matter. Seeing nothing there he turned to face the rear. By that time Tom Tuttle was on the back platform and nothing was to be seen in that direction. ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
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Words linked to "Water tank" :   storage tank, tank, hot-water tank, cistern


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