water carrier

See also: watercarrier and water-carrier

English

Alternative forms

water-carrier

Noun

water carrier (plural water carriers)

(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.
An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.
A pipe or tube that conveys water.
A transportation ship that is water-based.
(astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
(figuratively, colloquial) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
(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

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