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noun
A long slender cylindrical metal tank, especially one used to separate oil from water as it flows from a production well.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From gun barrel + tank, from the shape of the tank, which is long and cylindrical, like the barrel of a gun.
