water carrier

See also: watercarrier and water-carrier

English

Alternative forms

• water-carrier

Noun

water carrier (plural water carriers)

1. (usually historical) 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. (astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
6. (figuratively, colloquial) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
7. (cycling) A domestique.

Coordinate terms

• loutrophoros

Related terms

• water boy

Translations

person

• Bulgarian: водоносец m (vodonosec)
• Finnish: vedenkantaja
• Kazakh: сушы (suşy), су тасушы (su tasuşy)
• Latin: aquārius (la) m, utrārius m
• Macedonian: во́дар m (vódar), во́дарка f (vódarka), водо́носец m (vodónosec)
• Ottoman Turkish: صوجی (sucu), سقا (saka)
• Romanian: sacagiu (ro) m

arrangement of wires

pipe or tube

• Finnish: vesijohto (fi)
• Greek: υδραγωγός (el) m (ydragogós)

ship

• Finnish: vesitankkeri

Aquarius — see Aquarius

individual doing simple, ordinary work

• Bulgarian: водоносец m (vodonosec)
• Finnish: duunari (fi)

domestique — see domestique