(British) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
2010, David Nichols, Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields, footnote citing 1926 report, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q0HuApjnk2AC&pg=PA309&dq=%22bowser%22|%22bowsers%22+petrol+-intitle:%22bowser%22+-inauthor:%22bowser%22&hl=en&…
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A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
I needed at least fifteen litres more petrol in my tank to reach the next major settlement and, unlike China, there were no shiny new gas stations here with bowsers of different types of petrol to choose from, nor were there pretty young…
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(now, _, chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
‘Kids are breaking into the service station bowsers at night, draining out the dregs of petrol from the bowser hoses, wandering the streets sniffing petrol from Coke bottles all night,’ he said.
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