tanker
Noun
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Noun
tanker (plural tankers)
- (nautical) A tank ship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
- (automotive, US) A tank truck.
- (automotive, UK) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
- (rail) A tank car
- (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
- 2014, Michael Green, American Tanks & AFVs of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN 9781782009795), page 70:
- On February 19, 1943, American tankers felt the full wrath of the German Army in North Africa when its tank-led spearhead punched a 2-mile-wide hole through American lines at Faid Pass in Tunisia, […]
- 2014, Michael Green, American Tanks & AFVs of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN 9781782009795), page 70:
- (surfing slang) A longboard.
- I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip
- (military) tankman, tankist
- (military) trooper, crewman, armoured soldier, armored soldier
- (military) zipperhead (Canadian military slang)
- French: navire-citerne, pétrolier, tanker
- German: Tanker, Tankschiff
- Italian: nave cisterna, petroliera
- Portuguese: navio-tanque
- Russian: та́нкер
- Spanish: buque cisterna tanker ship, camión cisterna tank truck, avión cisterna tanker plane
- French: camion-citerne
- German: Tanklaster, Tanklastwagen
- Italian: autocisterna
- Portuguese: camião-cisterna (Portugal), caminhão-tanque (Brazil)
- Russian: бензово́з
- Spanish: camión cisterna
tanker (tankers, present participle tankering; past and past participle tankered)
- (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
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