jerk water
(US, railroads, dated) To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.
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(US, railroads, dated) To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.
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(US, colloquial, pejorative) Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards.
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(US, railroads, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).
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