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An artificial reservoir for storing liquids
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cistern
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from Old French cisterne "cistern; dungeon, underground prison" (12c., Modern French citerne ), from Latin cisterna "underground reservoir for water," from cista "chest, box," from Greek kiste "box, chest" (see chest ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cistern \Cis"tern\, n. [OE. cisterne, OF. cisterne, F. cisterne, fr. L. cisterna, fr. cista box, chest. See Cist , and cf. chest .] An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids. A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cistern may refer to: Cistern , a water storage tank Cistern (neuroanatomy) , an opening in the subarachnoid space of the brain Cistern, Texas , a village in Texas
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
Usage examples of cistern.
Then the chyle, conveyed through the thoracic duct from its cistern in the mesentery, is carried to the vena cava, and so to the heart.
Some of those who were diggers of trenches and hewers of cisterns said that it was their work which had wrought the change.
I could not imagine how they came by ice in that clime, but the Archon assured me that there is snow on the highest peaks of Kriti in winter, and they freeze great blocks of ice which they hoard throughout the summer in deep, cool cisterns.
There was a central cistern in this quarter of the city, and knowing where he was in relationship to it provided Limm with a navigational aid as good as any map, but only if he kept his wits about him and concentrated.
The peeve had been running back and forth all morning, only pausing to drink from the cistern in the roof gulley.
He ran water from the cistern in the yard and sponged off in the kitchen, the silence of the town sawing at his nerves.
After the wool has been through these scouring liquors it is thrown on a scray to drain, and is next placed in cisterns which have perforated false bottoms.
This ocean of falling water is received on a region sloping towards the north, and is conveyed by a thousand channels to the vast rocky cisterns which form the Speke and Baker Lakes.
The late caravaner had said it possessed capacious cisterns, fed by both springlets in the mountains around it and the infrequent rainfall.
As far as I know he is still stringless, just as I am still waiting for somebody to do something about the cistern.
Nylan smiled, but the smile faded as he thought of the uncompleted bathhouse and unfinished outside conduits to the cistern.
One day Abel Veritt, Del Erick, and others helped Rimon build a cistern atop the hill, to catch rain and melting snow.
Winding picturesquely among the trees, well-worn trails led to the Goat-House, to the western slope where Williams lived, to the Aute Valley where the principal gardens of the cloth-plant had been laid out, to the yam and sweet-potato patches and plantain walks, to the rock cisterns Christian had insisted on building in case of drought, to the Rope, and to the saw pit, still used occasionally when someone was in need of plank.
All of their lamp packs were now dead, and as they moved away from the Edicule chambers into the darker sections of the labyrinth, they had to halt while Mkoll and Caffran scouted ahead to salvage doth and wood from the bodies of the dead foe in the cistern approach.
All of their lamp packs were now dead, and as they moved away from the Edicule chambers into the darker sections of the labyrinth, they had to halt while Mkoll and Caffran scouted ahead to salvage cloth and wood from the bodies of the dead foe in the cistern approach.