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The tank. The word 'tank' originally was only used to not give away to any enemy spy or analist what is really was that was being developed: "tank" at the time only had the meaning of 'large receptacle for holding liquids".
A real name for the new invention was of course considered but no-one could come up with a catchy alternative name. So the name 'tank' stuck.
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