water carrier noun7 •(historical) A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job. •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. — 1965 •A domestique. •(informal, figurative) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable. •An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house. •A pipe or tube that conveys water. •A transportation ship that is water-based. formswater carriers · water-carriers