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VAT |
Cistern |
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TANK |
Water cistern |
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CESSPOOL |
Covered cistern |
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CESSPIT |
Sewage cistern |
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BAC |
A vat or cistern. See 1st Back. |
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FAT |
A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. |
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CANISTER |
Broke a cistern but it still holds dry goods |
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CABINET |
Broke a cistern but it still holds dry goods |
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STEEPER |
A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped. |
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CASTELLATED |
Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern
castellated. |
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SUSPIRAL |
A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern
or conduit. |
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FLOAT |
The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which
floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler. |
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LEADER |
A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern
or to the ground; a conductor. |
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STEEN |
A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a
well, cistern, etc.; a steening. |
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WASHER |
A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern,
tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. |
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SUMP |
The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine,
from which is pumped the water which accumulates there. |
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COMPLUVIUM |
A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman
dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern. |
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LADE |
To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to
lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. |
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CATCH-BASIN |
A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter
discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass
readily through the sewer. |
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BACK |
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by
brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for
mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. |
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EMPTY |
To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or
destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a
vessel; to empty a well or a cistern. |
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IMPLUVIUM |
In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium
or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the
compluvium; generally... |