jerk water

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited). US
    — 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.
  2. To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping. US,dated
    — 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”
形容词 adj.
  1. Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards US,colloquial,derogatory
    — c. 1920, Ring Lardner, The Real Dope But any way from the number of jerk water burgs we went through you would think we was on the Monon and the towns all looks so much like the other that […].

词形变化

jerks water present,singular,third-person jerking water participle,present jerked water participle,past jerked water past more jerk water comparative most jerk water superlative
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