Chapter 2 - page 22
sanitarium
"Then he begins to appear at hospitals and sanitariums."
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In this sentence sanitariums is used a plural noun. 2
A type of hospital for recuperation for the treatment of chronic diseases. Mental hospitals were also called sanitariums. If the facility was run by the government it was called an asylum, if it was privately owned it was called a sanitarium. The words sanatorium and sanitarium are interchangeable, both refer to a hospital that treats people with chronic illnesses or recovering from long-term illnesses.
Definitions from Webster's 1930 edition. 3
water wagon
"Why can't he stay on the water wagon?"
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In this sentence the phrase water wagon functions as a compound noun. 2
"Abstaining from drinking alcoholic beverages, as in Don't offer her wine; she's on the wagon. This expression is a shortening of on the water wagon, referring to the horse-drawn water car once used to spray dirt roads to keep down the dust. Its present meaning dates from about 1900." 4
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Footnotes for page 22
1Quotes from the Big Book on listed on this page are from the public domain version, in the United States, of the 2nd edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous. Accessible at 12step.org
2Sentence diagramming, to determine the word usage within the sentence, was performed by CoreNLP at corenlp.run.
3Definitions used are from the Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1930 Edition. Access to this dictionary online is at Hathitrust.org