jerkwater towns造句

• "I'm a little jerkwater mayor in a jerkwater town.
• McDonald was a " jerkwater town, " railroad parlance for a watering stop.
• This gave rise to a 19th-century slang term " Jerkwater town " for towns too insignificant to have a regular train station.
• He is an old man worn hard by years of rough rides through jerkwater towns and gunfights with killers unlucky enough to cross his path.
• Railroaders, especially in Pennsylvania, also used the verb to coin jerkwater town, from the scooping of water from a track pan ( a trough between the rails ) in a town too small for a train stop.
• To avoid stopping at the water tower in a " tank town, " railroads in the 1870's introduced the use of a track pan between the tracks and a scoop which could be lowered to force water up into the tender, giving rise to the term " jerkwater town . " It's a place where the train doesn't even stop for water.