gas holder

1. 1.

   a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel

   Synonymsgasometer

   Broadertank

Questions about gas holder

What does gas holder mean?

gas holder means "a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel".

What is another word for gas holder?

Close synonyms include gasometer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gas holder a common word?

gas holder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.