Meaning

7 senses
  1. (historical, usually)A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.

  2. An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.

  3. A pipe or tube that conveys water.

  4. A transportation ship that is water-based.

  5. Aquarius, or a symbol for it.

  6. (colloquial, figuratively)A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.

  7. A domestique.

Translations

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Forms

plural: water carriers

Word family

1 related words
Relatedwater boy

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