[f. TANK sb.1]
1. trans. To lift or measure in a tank.
1886. Sci. Amer. Suppl., 9130. If this [water] can be tanked or weighed, no material error should occur.
1890. Colliery Advert. The water pumped or tanked out.
2. To store or preserve in a tank.
1900. Lancet, 22 Sept., 873/2. Sailors … who have had to drink tanked and often impure water.
3. To treat in a tank or tanks.
1849. Hosking, Healthy Homes, 205. So that the fluid may come down thoroughly mixed, of the proper strength, and fit to be returned as manure, without being first tanked for the purpose of dilution.
1891. Cent. Dict., Tanking, the operation or method of treating in tanks, as fish for the extraction of oil, by boiling, settling, etc.
4. To immerse in a tank; to duck. dial.
1863. Reade, Hard Cash, xxxviii. III. 68. They tanked her cruel, they did; and kept her under water till she was nigh gone.
