water carrier

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  6. A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable. colloquial,figuratively
  7. A domestique.

词形变化

water carriers plural water-carrier alternative

词汇关系

相关词
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并列词
loutrophoros
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