gasholder
Americannoun
noun
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Also called: gasometer. a large tank for storing coal gas or natural gas prior to distribution to users
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any vessel for storing or measuring a gas
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A terrible Swiss gig in a disused gasholder inspired them to give up.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2013
"Her ram had passed completely through the gasholder."
From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith
The corrections for both the influences mentioned vary with the height at which the top of the gasholder bell stands above the level of the water in the tank.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
There is no gasholder, no railway-station, no theatre, no cab-stand, no daily paper, and no drainage board to go into controversy over.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
The new gasholder which has been erected by Messrs. C. and W. Walker for the Imperial Continental Gas Company at Erdberg, near Vienna, has been graphically described by Herr E.R.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various
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