jerk water (English, verb)
expansion: jerk water (third-person singular simple present jerks water, present participle jerking water, simple past and past participle jerked water)
Senses:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
qualifier: apocryphal
glosses: To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).
tags: US
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.
tags: US
dated
Forms:
form: jerks water
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jerking water
tags: participle
present
form: jerked water
tags: participle
past
form: jerked water
tags: past