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jerkwater

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈd͡ʒɚk.wɔ.tɚ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aeejkrrtwStarts with JEnds with R0 clues
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  1. small and remote and insignificant

Word origin

From jerk (“to move with a sudden movement”) + water. Refers to the need to supply the boilers of steam trains with water. In rural areas and small towns with no water tower, where the train did not stop, this was done by scooping ("jerking") water from a track pan. First appears c. 1852, in the Miami County Sentinel (Peru, Indiana).

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  • […] 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.

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