watercarrierとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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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.

等位語

• loutrophoros

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