jerk water English

Meaning jerk water meaning

What does jerk water mean?

jerk water verb

— (US, railroads, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).

— (US, railroads, dated) To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.

jerk water adjective

— (US, colloquial, pejorative) Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards