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jerkwater

発音

(米国発音) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɚk.wɔ.tɚ/

名詞

jerkwater (複数形 jerkwaters)

(US, historical) A train on a branch line.
- 1975, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 71, no. 1 (Mar. 1975), page 355
  […] 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.
A jerkwater town.

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動詞

jerk water

(US, rail transport, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).
- 1954, Mari Sandoz, The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, page 171
  The Santa Fe, called the Jerk Water route because they "jerked" water from ponds and wallows for the engine, still frayed out at the Kansas line.
- 1975, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 71, no. 1 (Mar. 1975), page 355
  […] 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.
(US, rail transport, dated) To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine 's tank without stopping.

形容詞

jerk water (comparative more jerk water, superlative most jerk water)

(US, colloquial, derogatory) Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards
- c. 1920, Ring Lardner, The Real Dope
  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 […].

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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2008/06/30 23:18 UTC 版)

名詞

jerk-water (複数形 jerk-waters)

(rail transport, pejorative) A branch line train, using light equipment
- 1918, Charmian London, Jack London and Hawaii, page 19
  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.

形容詞

jerk-water (comparative more jerk-water, superlative most jerk-water)

(米国用法, colloquial, pejorative) Of an inhabited place, small, isolated, backward.
- 1907, Charles Stelzle, Christianity 's Storm Centre: A Study of the Modern City, page 103
  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."
(米国用法, colloquial, pejorative, rail transport) Railroads with low traffic.
- 1915, Daniel Jacob Hauer, The Economics of Contracting: A Treatise for Contractors, Engineers […], vol. II, page 212
  He had risen to the head of the greatest street car system in the world from the position of brakeman on a jerk-water railroad.
- 1922, Edward Hungerford, Our Railroads To-morrow, page 297
  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 ?

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