(archaic) A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
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Noun
Singular:
water-tower
Plural:
water-towers
Water-tower Sentence Examples
The houses are built of stone and mortar, and above the thatched straw roof which surmounts the doublestoreyed buildings the square water-tower rises gracefully.
Follow the road up the hill, passing a water tower on your left-hand side.
I then built a 20 foot high water tower near to the house, intended for my personal consumption.
Get Roofus and look for a nearby water tower.
Listening to the story of the struggle between love and duty, Pierre saw before his eyes every minutest detail of his last meeting with the object of his love at the Sukharev water tower.