cistern
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5.7
- noun
- /ˈsɪstərn/
:
cisterna
- After a heavy rainstorm, the cistern filled up quickly, providing enough water for flushing the toilets in the house.
- a toilet cistern
And what they were doing, they were going upstairs and they were leaving bags of pills in the cisterns in the toilets.
- And what they were doing, they were going upstairs and they were leaving bags of pills in the cisterns in the toilets.
Examples
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It was only four miles to the house, and I made that easily, even taking a sidetrack through the winter pasture to check the storage cistern for the corner windmill.
Fiction book (2000) -
The vegetables look different now that Lunula cannot tend them and, perhaps because the heat increases hourly, the reserves of our small cistern have diminished considerably.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's always the same here, the cistern is always blocked!
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Mister Watson paid no mind, just washed his head at our hand pump from the cistern.
Fiction book (1990) -
He spotted the water dripping out of a pipe that emerged from the wall high above the floor and then falling into a metal cistern.
Fiction book (1998) -
Translation: 1300 gallons of rainwater harvested from the roof, enough to fill the cistern.
Blog text (22) -
That's the reason I have a collection of things like two nice, big cross-buck saws, a human-powered plow/seed drill, plenty of hand tools including a nice brace-and-bit set, saws, hand planes, and even a hand pump for the cistern.
Blog text (23) -
The plumber explained that the cistern needed to be cleaned regularly to ensure a good water supply for the toilet.
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To save water, the homeowners decided to collect rainwater in a cistern to use for their garden and toilet flushing.
Synonyms
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1.9
A container that holds water for flushing a toilet
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3.1
A large container that holds liquids like water in factories or farms
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Etymology
Cistern comes from the Latin cisterna, literally a 'box' of water, so a helpful image is a simple 'water box' that sits above or behind a toilet. That's why a toilet cistern is the tank that holds water for flushing.