Definition for RES-ER-VOIR'

RES-ER-VOIR', n. [Fr.]

A place where any thing is kept in store, particularly a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill-wheel and the like; a cistern; a mill-pond; a basin.

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