Bobbie Ann Mason

We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.

American Novelist

Billy Graham

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

American Clergyman

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

James Northcote

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

English Artist

Mostly used to describe the tank in a flush toilet or for rainwater collection.

Common Usage

Cisterns are typically stationary and part of a building's plumbing system.

Fixed Location

A cistern implies a larger capacity than smaller household water containers.

Capacity Implication

Ancient cisterns reflect historical ingenuity in water conservation and storage.

Cultural Insight

Old cisterns are often explored in archeology for understanding historical lifestyles.

Historical Artifact

In medical terms, cistern refers to a specific cavity, not any hollow space.

Anatomical Term

Understanding 'cistern' in a medical context requires knowledge of anatomy.

Specialized Knowledge

Cisterns in medical contexts are not typically known by the general public.

Technical Vocabulary

 of gallons of water per year and cisterns that allowed them to have incredible trade amass great wealth and build tombs like this seen in Indiana Jones so my colleagues asked me to participate in a project looking at satellite imagery from this site I said

The history buried under...

 becomes protective clothing for a crewman. Chapters with titles as unpromising as “Cistern and Buckets” become some of the novel’s most rewarding as Ishmael compares bailing out a sperm-whale’s head to midwifery,

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 photographed at 30 octi a railway station where villagers took water from a wagon cistern that arrived to the village every day and that was the only source of water for this village both