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Meaning of saddletank | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A style of tank locomotive in which the water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle.
  2. An early style of ballast tank submarine in which the tank sits on top like a saddle.

Examples

“The smart little locomotives, mostly 0-6-0 saddletanks, which are always busy shunting traffic amongst the vast dockside warehouses, belong to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway, a line of considerable importance.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Saddleworth Saddling saddo Sadducee Sadduceeism sade

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