Category:Tank

Tank, n.

Defn: a small indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; Also, a bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. Simmonds.

Tank Tank, n. Etym: [pg. tanque, l. stangum a pool; or perhaps of east Indian origin. Cf. Stank, n.]

Defn: a large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids. 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 (zoöl.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks Of india, supposed by some to be the young of the guinea worm.