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9 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• jerkwater n. (US, historical) A train on a branch line.
• jerkwater n. A jerkwater town.
• jerkwater adj. (US, colloquial, derogatory) Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward.
• jerk-water n. (Rail transport, derogatory) A branch line train, using light equipment.
• jerk-water adj. (US, colloquial, derogatory) Of an inhabited place, small, isolated, backward.
• jerk-water adj. (US, colloquial, derogatory, rail transport) Railroads with low traffic.
• jerk␣water v. (US, rail transport, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies…
• jerk␣water v. (US, rail transport, dated) To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam…
• jerk␣water adj. (US, colloquial, derogatory) Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards.

53 English words from 9 English definitions

and apocryphal backward backwards branch branch␣line colloquial dated derogatory directly equipment fill from historical inhabited insignificant into isolated jerkwater jerkwater␣town light line locomotive low manually mounted natural Of␣an on␣the pan place places rail Railroads rail␣transport scoop small steam steam␣locomotive supplies tank the town track track␣pan tracks traffic train transport using water water␣tank with

4 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

jerkwaters jerk-waters jerkwater␣town jerkwater␣towns

18 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ate Até Atë -ate Ater erk jer Jer Jer. jerk Kwa ter TER ter- wat Wat WAT water

9 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

awk eta ETA ret Ret. Reta taw Taw tawk

2 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

jerkwaters jerk-waters

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