water carrier
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
noun
An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.
noun
A transportation ship that is water-based.
noun
A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
Colloquial
noun
A domestique.
name
The constellation and zodiacal sign Aquarius.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "No racketting around and cocktail parties for those born under the influence of the Water-carrier and the Archer."