Now rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To enclose in, or fit with, a cistern. Also fig.
1587. Fleming, Cont. Holinshed, III. 354/1. The conducting of Thames water, cesterning the same in lead, [etc.].
1598. Stow, Surv., xxx. (1603), 267. The great conduit of sweete water … castellated with stone and cesterned in leade.
1881. Rossetti, Ballads & Sonn., 223. Cisterned in Pride, verse is the feathery jet Of soulless air-flung fountains.
