tanker

[ tang-ker ]

noun

1. a ship, airplane, or truck designed for bulk shipment of liquids or gases.
2. a tank trailer or tank truck.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport by tanker.

tanker

/ ˈtæŋkə /

noun

1. a ship, lorry, or aeroplane designed to carry liquid in bulk, such as oil

Word History and Origins

Origin of tanker¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; tank + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Montgomery County Fire Department spokesman Pete Piringer said a tanker truck and several vehicles were involved in the crash and that three people were transported to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

From Washington Post

With one typical method, a human operator lowers a long boom from the tanker to the top of the receiving plane.

From Popular-Science

That essentially left the tanker to rot, fueling fears the oil on board might eventually spill into the waters below.

From Vox

SilverLiner, a tanker truck manufacturing company, also has hired 13 employees, Mura said.

From ProPublica

For the most part, tankers like the one Hopf flies drop a line of retardant not on the fire itself, but in a place that will help steer or contain the blaze.

From Popular-Science

Around 60 mangled and scorched tanker cars still remain there.

From The Daily Beast

They pump their haul of diluted bitumen into tanker cars in the terminal's loading yard, thick with the smell of petroleum.

From The Daily Beast

A giant barge has made its way to the front of the wreckage near an enormous oil tanker that arrived over the weekend.

From The Daily Beast

The year before a gasoline tanker truck exploded near a building in which he was holding a meeting.

From The Daily Beast

There was a massive explosion and the men in the fuel tanker were instantly incinerated.

From The Daily Beast

Twenty minutes later, Clay and the carrier driver had the new part installed and the tanker was on his way once again.

From Project Gutenberg

Usually it is only the drunks who come over the side of an oil-tanker singing, but this was no drunk.

From Project Gutenberg

One of the two Oman ships had been converted into a fuel-tanker and its yawning holds were being filled first.

From Project Gutenberg

All too soon, however, the heavily laden tanker appeared in the sky over Ardane.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a ship out yonder, but its a tanker or a freighter.

From Project Gutenberg

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