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noun

Tank n. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

Tank n.

A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. "We stood in the afterglow on the bank of the tank and saw the ducks come home." "The tanks are full and the grass is high."

(Mil.) A heavily armored combat vehicle which moves on caterpillar treads, rather than wheels. It typically carries a cannon and a heavy machine, and sometimes other weapons. It is the main distinguishing weapon of an armored division.

A jail cell for temporarily holding prisoners, as in a police station.

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 (Zool.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.

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"Tank" Quotes from Famous Books

... villa, Phaon advised him to hide himself a while in a sand-pit; when he replied, "I will not go underground alive." Staying there some little time, while preparations were made for bringing him privately into the villa, he took up some water out of a neighboring tank in his hand, to drink, saying, "This is Nero's distilled water." Then his cloak having been torn by the brambles, he pulled out the thorns which stuck in it. At last, being admitted, creeping upon his hands and knees, through ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various

... observed since the first edition of this book appeared, besides that already given of the stickleback. Mr. W.S. Kent says that the male of the Labrus mixtus, which, as we have seen, differs in colour from the female, makes "a deep hollow in the sand of the tank, and then endeavours in the most persuasive manner to induce a female of the same species to share it with him, swimming backwards and forwards between her and the completed nest, and plainly exhibiting the greatest anxiety for her to follow." The males ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... the water tank's near empty, so I'll wish ye good-morning, anyhow, mum!' And this valiant man moved ...

— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... back with you, Cap, for I'm taking a little pasear around past Herrara's rancheria. I want to take a look at that bunch of colts and size up the water there. I've a hunch they had better be headed up the other valley to the Green Springs tank ...

— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan

... Even a gas-tank is nothing but a large pitcher, made of iron because iron does not break as easily as china and is less porous than clay. So are barrels and bottles and pots and pans. They all serve the same purpose—of providing us in the future with those things of which ...

— Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations • Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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