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/wˈɔtər tˈaʊər/ Listen

noun

Water tower n.

A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.

A tower or standpipe used as a water storage reservoir, to deliver water at a required head of pressure, as to a fountain.

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Etymology of 'Water tower'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Water tower" Quotes from Famous Books

... owners, the successive Barons Bangletop, have added to its original dimensions, putting Queen Anne wings here, Elizabethan ells there, and an Italian-Renaissance facade on the river front. A Wisconsin water tower, connected with the main building by a low Gothic alleyway, stands to the south; while toward the east is a Greek chapel, used by the present occupant as a store-room for his wife's trunks, she having lately returned from Paris with a wardrobe calculated to last through the first half ...

— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs

... public utility. Its electric lines in the village were eventually sold to the Central New York Power Corporation and incorporated into that system. Steam heat was also supplied to the railroad station and the customs house, and the company pumped water out of the river to the water tower on the hill above Pine Hill Cemetery, following the installation ...

— History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills • Robert B. Shaw