water carrier


noun
  1. a person who carries water, as to a body of troops.

  2. a pipe, duct, or tank for conveying water.

  1. a ship that transports goods or persons by waterway or sea routes.

Origin of water carrier

1
First recorded in 1645–55

Words Nearby water carrier

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How to use water carrier in a sentence

  • She repeated the brief phrases, as well as she could recall them, to a Eurasian whom she found acting as a water-carrier.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • He had been a bheestee (water carrier) to the house of Ramabai up to the young banker's incarceration.

    The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrath
  • He saw the water carrier enter through the bamboo gate, heard the water slosh about jerkily as the bheestee emptied his goatskin.

    The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrath
  • I even put the water-carrier upon asking about the neighbourhood; but no such name as Courson was ever heard of!

  • She had made up the amount with money drawn from every source, even from her poor miserable water-carrier.

    Germinie Lacerteux | Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

British Dictionary definitions for water carrier (1 of 2)

water carrier

noun
  1. informal a football player who is regarded as hard-working and competent but is not a star player

British Dictionary definitions for Water Carrier (2 of 2)

Water Carrier

noun
  1. the Water Carrier the constellation Aquarius, the 11th sign of the zodiac

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