jerk water

Verb

 * 1)  To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).
 * 2)  To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.
 * 1)  To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.
 * 1)  To scoop water from a track pan mounted on the tracks directly into a steam engine's tank without stopping.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards
 * 2) * c. 1920, Ring Lardner, The Real Dope
 * But any way from the number of jerk water burgs we went through you would think we was on the Monon and the towns all looks so much like the other that […].