watertank

English

Noun

watertank (plural watertanks)

1. Alternative form of water tank
   • 1994, Henrik Christiansen, World War Two Artifacts in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, page 34:

     The watertank is divided into two sections. The watertank measures 5.40 x 8.60 m.

   • 1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain:

     In the steeply canted light the laddered shadows of the fences looked like railtracks running up the country and doves were crossing below him toward a watertank on the McNew spread. […] Rusted watertanks in a yard strewn with trashpapers the wind had left.

   • 2008, Phil Cheney, Andrew Sullivan, “Safety: myths, facts and fallacies”, in Grassfires: Fuel, Weather and Fire Behaviour, 2nd edition, CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, section “Boiled alive”, page 119:

     There were reports of people perishing in elevated watertanks during the 1939 fires but there is no information about the location of those tanks and their proximity to burning buildings or other sources of prolonged heating. This is unfortunate, because it seems to have led to the avoidance of watertanks in general.