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Definition of Tank top
1. Noun. A tight-fitting sleeveless shirt with wide shoulder straps and low neck and no front opening; often worn over a shirt or blouse.
Definition of Tank top
1. Noun. An item of casual clothing: a top with no sleeves. ¹
2. Noun. The top of a ship's bilge tank, usually the lowest horizontal surface on board. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tank Top
Literary usage of Tank top
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"In double-bottom vessels ceiling planking is not needed, for the tank top itself
affords the necessary platform for cargo, it is, therefore, ..."
2. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance : a Manual for Shipbuilders by Thomas Walton (1908)
"... Frame Space— Estimated Pressure upon a Bulkhead and Centre of Pressure—Pressure
upon a tank top—Tendency to Transverse Deformation—Longitudinal Stresses ..."
3. A Handbook of Practical Shipbuilding by James Douglas MacBride (1921)
"CHAPTER IX tank top, Inner Bottom and Peak Tanks The bottom of the modern steamship
is ... This is formed by the outer shell plating and the "tank top. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The frames are all connected to the tank top and to the upper ... The stanchions
arc attached to the tank top by double clips of 6-in. angle bar, ..."
5. Lake Ship Yard Methods of Steel Ship Construction by Robert Curr (1907)
"62 shows part of the tank top in place and three plates on A strake, ...
Two templates are shown in place for copying tank top plates, B, 11 and 12. ..."
6. Locomotive Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which Designate ...by George Little Fowler by George Little Fowler (1906)
"A piece of pipe open at both ends, screwed into a flange riveted to the tank top
near the manhole and passing down through the tank bottom to allow any ..."
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