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What is a cistern?

What is a cistern? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
  2. (technical) In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
  3. (anatomy) A cisterna.
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He's now exchanged the wrong inner cistern gubbins he got yesterday for the correct ones.
Behind was a court, which provided light, and a place for a water cistern supplying a communal tap.
An irregularly shaped cistern is meant to receive varying amounts of water during the operation of the machine.
The oil reservoir, or font, was mounted on top of the cistern, and the flow of oil into it was controlled by a valve.
He fled to his cistern to bring back water, but though the fledgling grasped the cup and strove to drink, he could not force it down.
It is a water-saving device you fit in your toilet cistern so that less water is used for flushing.

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