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Water tower   Listen
noun
Water tower  n.  
1.
A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
2.
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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"Water tower" Quotes from Famous Books



... manner of his life. If so, order an advance copy; it will be the goods. Just at the moment it was the manner of his death that had me. I was back again in derelict Vermelles, with its spattered water tower, and the flat desolate plain in front. Loos is out of sight over the hill; only the great slag heap lies squat and menacing on one's left, with the remnants of Big Willie and Little Willie near to its base in the old blood-soaked Hohenzollern ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile


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