Tanks?
Yeah, I wondered if there’d be anyone who didn’t know what I was talking about.
In Texas (maybe elsewhere), smallish ponds (not big enough to be a lake) are used for watering stock...and they’re called stock tanks.
I’m not exactly sure of the etymology, but I believe the term came from an actual, metal watering tub or “tank”. Local parlance here uses tanks as the name for the watering holes I mentioned above.
Generally, the tanks are dug by the landowner. In Texas, there is only one, single natural lake. All the rest are man-made. So, probably the same can be said for stock tanks.
When it was hot, we used to swim in them. I wouldn’t do it NOW, mind you...but we did as young ‘uns. A lot of folks stock their tanks with fish (catfish, bass, bream, etc.) and fish them for fun, too.
Hope this is what you were asking about...
Regards.
Yea it is, thanks. The only tank I had ever seen was on my pheasant hunting trips to N.W. Kansas where the farm owner had a metal tank filled with water that the horses and cattle drank out of.............