tankodrome
English
editEtymology
edit1918, tank + -o- + -drome, after aerodrome.
Pronunciation
editHyphenation: tanko‧drome
Noun
edittankodrome (plural tankodromes)
- (obsolete, military) A training location for use of tanks; tank park.
- 1919, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 205, W. Blackwood, page 588:
- Prospective tank-drivers tramped up early every morning to the Tank Park or “Tankodrome”—a couple of large fields in which workshops had been erected, some trenches dug, and a few shell-craters blown