Usually means: Person or vessel transporting water.
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  1. water carrier: Merriam-Webster
  2. Water Carrier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. water carrier, the Water Carrier: Collins English Dictionary
  4. water-carrier: Wordnik
  5. water-carrier, water carrier: Wiktionary
  6. water carrier: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. water carrier: Dictionary.com
  8. Water carrier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Water Carrier: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WATER CARRIER, WATER CARRIER, WATER CARRIER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (water carrier)

noun:  (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.
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 pipe or tube that conveys water.
noun:  A transportation ship that is water-based.
noun:  (astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
noun:  (figuratively, colloquial) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
noun:  (cycling) A domestique.

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