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saddle tank en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of saddletank.
    alt of saddletank
    • In 1863 the Furness Railway purchased its last batch of 0-4-0 tender engines from Sharp Stewart & Co. of Manchester. [...] These locomotives had only a short life with the F.R., for the railway sold them in 1870 to Schneider & Hannay, now the Barrow Haematite Steel Co., and the latter converted them into saddle tanks. 1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: Furness Railway Veterans”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:

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saddle tanks Number=Plur lexicographic