English Dictionary

jerk water

動詞

アメリカ英語 古風

(US, rail transport, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).

日本語の意味

（米国、鉄道分野、逸話的なもの）蒸気機関車の水タンクに、自然水源から手作業で水を補給すること

Old-timers joked that, during droughts, crews would jerk water from the river to keep the steam engines running.

年配の鉄道労働者たちは、干ばつのときに蒸気機関車を走らせ続けるために乗組員が川から手作業で給水タンクに水を補給すると冗談を言っていた。

意味（1）

(US, rail transport, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).

The Santa Fe, called the Jerk Water route because they jerked water from ponds and wallows for the engine, still frayed out at the Kansas line.

意味（2）

(US, rail transport, dated) To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.

In 1870 at Montrose, N.Y., the New York Central made the first installation of a track pan and scoop to permit locomotives to take water on the fly. Since these installations invariably were in tiny communities, and since they permitted locomotives literally to “jerk water”

jerks water （ present singular third-person ）

jerking water （ participle present ）

jerked water （ participle past ）

jerked water （ past ）