jerk water teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı
- Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards
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 .
- To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies
by bailing from near streams with buckets, (the brake-man called this operation jerking water) and from this the road gets its name of jerkwater road.
- Railroads with low traffic
Can the keen-minded Mr. Willard at Baltimore be more anxious than the keen-minded Mr. Rea at Philadelphia to undertake the management of jerk-water branches in Connecticut or in Rhode Island or down on Cape Cod ?.
- Of an inhabited place, small, isolated, backward
That seems to disappoint them, for every sociologist likes to go back to some jerk-water college and tell those who are in the sociological class how they had to get their information by pantomime..
- A branch line train, using light equipment
The mail was brought by a tiny jerk-water bobtail dummy and coach run by one, Tony, from Pearl City, a mile away, to a station near the end of the peninsula.
- jerkwater
- Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, backward
- jerkwater
- A train on a branch line
by bailing from near streams with buckets, (the brake-man called this operation jerking water) and from this the road gets its name of jerkwater road.
- jerkwater
- small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
- jerkwater
- {s} unimportant, insignificant; not on the main line (of a train)