water carrier

Meaning

1. 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.
6. (colloquial) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
7. A domestique.

Synonyms

water-carrier

water-bearer

water carter

water bearer

water-bottle

Translations

υδραγωγός

acquaiolo

🚰

سقاء

سقاؤ

سقائ

قراب

Wassermann

♒

Wasserträger

ساقي

aguador

سقا