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Water carrier
name, noun, slang
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Proper Noun
- 1 The constellation and zodiacal sign Aquarius.
"Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names."
Noun
- 1 A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job. historical, usually
- 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."
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- 6 A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable. colloquial, figuratively
- 7 A domestique.
Etymology
Calque of Latin Aquarius. Compare Afrikaans Waterdraer
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