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- Practice the English pronunciation of jerk water with real speech in context.
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- (US, rail transport, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (US, rail transport, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).
- (US, rail transport, dated) To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.
- [Adjective]
- (US, colloquial, derogatory) Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards
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