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plural saddletanks
(rail transport) A style of tank locomotive in which the water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle. quotations examples
The smart little locomotives, mostly 0-6-0 saddletanks, which are always busy shunting traffic amongst the vast dockside warehouses, belong to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway, a line of considerable importance.
1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 488
(naval architecture) An early style of ballast tank submarine in which the tank sits on top like a saddle. examples