water tower

noun

: a tower or standpipe serving as a reservoir to deliver water at a required head

Examples of water tower in a Sentence

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Excavations for the water tower and dry well tunnel are practically completed. Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 When the city acquired the property more than 10 years ago, the water tower was already in disrepair, Gannon said. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025 Crews have begun to clean up a heap of steel and iron that had stood as a water tower in Independence since 1913, after the tower came crashing down during a demolition effort, landing eight feet from a house Tuesday. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025 For his explosive feats, Merritt McAlinden was a local legend, and part of the reason for that reputation was a water tower in a town north of Princeton, which hired him to get rid of it. John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for water tower

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of water tower was in 1835

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“Water tower.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20tower. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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