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tank engine

noun

  1. a steam locomotive that carries its water supply in tanks mounted around its boiler
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Long gone was the phenom, replaced by Tomic “The Tank Engine.”

The company also has a line of apps featuring Curious George, Thomas the Tank Engine and Sesame Street.

The engine, which is an all-coupled six wheel tank engine, weighs 48½ tons in working order, it has cylinders 18 in.

Its weight but slightly exceeded three tons, and it was a “tank engine,” carrying its own fuel and water at B.

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