Definition of Tankers

1. Noun. (plural of tanker) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tankers

1. tanker [n] - See also: tanker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tankers

tanka
tanka prose
tankage
tankages
tankard
tankards
tankas
tankbuster
tankbusters
tanked
tanker
tanker aircraft
tanker boot
tanker boots
tanker plane
tankers (current term)
tankette
tankettes
tankful
tankfuls
tankia
tankias
tankies
tanking
tankings
tankini
tankinis
tankless
tanklike
tankling

Literary usage of Tankers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board by United States Shipping Board (1920)
"tankers. During the year the demand for tanker tonnage increased, and the ships ... During this period there was also carried in Shipping Board tankers ..."

2. The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil by Robert W. Tolf (1976)
"... CHAPTER FOUR The World's First Oil tankers The time, the place, the setting were ideal for Ludwig's particular genius. Baku was begging for a man of ..."

3. Hot Bulb Oil Engines and Suitable Vessels by Walter Pollock (1919)
"Oil tankers.—Oil tankers are ideal vessels for fitting with hot bulb oil engines, and those that have been built up to the present time have been very ..."

4. In Danger Undaunted: The Anti-Interventionist Movement of 1940-1941 As by Justus D. Doenecke (1990)
"A leading Senate authority on oil is reported to have said that the Japanese wanted to take the oil in their own tankers, but the British-Dutch oil combine ..."

5. Contemporary Verse Anthology: Favorite Poems Selected from the Magazine by Charles Wharton Stork (1920)
"... Panama, and Aden on the sands, Red with rust and green with mold, caked with sodden brine, The reeling, rolling tankers sail Southward from the Tyne. ..."

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