| 单词 | tanker load |
| 释义 | > as lemmastanker load C1. attributive and in other combinations, as tanker aircraft, tanker load, tanker-ship, tanker train, etc. ΚΠ 1923 Daily Mail 2 Aug. 1 Pipe-lines carry the precious oil to..the Persian Gulf, where the huge tanker-ships are waiting to convey it to the Llandarcy Refinery. 1938 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 42 389 The aeroplane would then take off with a small quantity of fuel in the tanks..and the tanks would be filled in the air from the tanker aircraft. 1945 G. Millar Maquis iv. 57 What they don't booze they send off to their factories in tanker wagons to make explosives with. 1953 Times 31 Oct. 11/1 The tanker drivers' strike is out of the way. 1958 Ann. Reg. 1957 v. i. 360 The rise in tanker freights, and the greater use of the Cape route. 1965 D. Francis Odds Against xi. 150 We might not find Smith, the tanker driver. 1973 Country Life 29 Mar. 873/3 A 3,000-hen battery laying unit produces weekly a 600-gallon tanker load of cage manure. 1978 Times 16 Aug. 2/6 The tanker train ran out of control. The tanker guard is blamed. 1981 ‘D. Rutherford’ Porcupine Basin vii. 126 Two tanker-loading jetties pushed their long arms..out into the water. 1982 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 24/4 Six TriStar aircraft are to be ordered from British Airways for use as strategic tanker aircraft for the RAF. < as lemmas |
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