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1. Then remounting aloft, it again goes through the same round until the deep cistern will yield no more.
2. The farmers were able to withstand the dry season by using rainwater they had stored in an underground cistern.
3. Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern.

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 Meanings and Examples of CISTERN
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cistern
 n.  reservoir or water tank; vessel to hold water for household uses
Classic Sentence:
1  But there came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thenardier raised the cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass and briskly approached the cistern.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
2  In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories ancient cistern pipes of lead.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT
3  Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
4  Then remounting aloft, it again goes through the same round until the deep cistern will yield no more.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
5  A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
6  When they reached the water side they went to the washing cisterns, through which there ran at all times enough pure water to wash any quantity of linen, no matter how dirty.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
Example Sentence:
1  The farmers were able to withstand the dry season by using rainwater they had stored in an underground cistern.