gas tank


noun

a tank containing the gasoline supply in a car, truck, or other gasoline-engine vehicle.
a storage tank for gas or gasoline.

Origin of gas tank

First recorded in 1880–85

Example sentences from the Web for gas tank

  • Cally, lifting a handkerchief to obliterate the adjacent odors of a gas-tank, said: "I haven't the smallest idea."

    V. V.'s Eyes |Henry Sydnor Harrison
  • The kid lives with a man named Grimsley, in a shack down by the river, in the gas-tank section.

    Frank of Freedom Hill |Samuel A. Derieux
  • For a while there was the danger of a general conflagration and explosion, as the gas-tank was floating in kerosene.

    The Home of the Blizzard |Douglas Mawson