Situated or built on or beside water, as water castle, water frontage, water steps, etc. See also water bridge, n. 1.

a type of warning beacon consisting of a basket, box, etc., on top of a pole, used to mark a sandbank or other dangerous area.

A kind of beacon erected at sea, consisting of a pole surmounted by some object, such as a small barrel.

attributive and in other combinations, as beacon-bell, beacon-blaze, beacon-grate, beacon-place, beacon-turret, beacon-vessel; also beacon-wise adv.