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watercarrier

watercarrier is the alternative form of water carrier.

Meaning of water carrier

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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Forms of watercarrier

pluralwatercarriers

Questions about watercarrier

What is watercarrier the alternative form of?
Watercarrier is the alternative form of water carrier.

Words near watercarrier in the dictionary

  1. waterbus
  2. waterbuses
  3. waterbush
  4. waterbutt
  5. waterbutts
  6. watercarrier
  7. watercarriers
  8. watercise
  9. watercleft
  10. waterclefts
  11. waterclock

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