water carriers

Noun

water carrier (plural water carriers)

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.
   • With the ascent of the Sumerian civilization, in which, we have seen, the figure of Aquarius as the "Water-carrier" was already accepted as a current symbol, the Ibex by no means disappeared.1965, Willy Hartner, “The Earliest History of the Constellations in the near East and the Motif of the Lion-Bull Combat”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 24, number 1/2, page 11, column 1
6. (colloquial, figuratively) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.

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