Word Meanings - CATCH-MEADOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

• Waterer
  One who, or that which, waters.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• WATEREAGLE
  The osprey.
• Springle
  A springe.
• WATERPIPE
  A pipe for conveying water.
• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
• WATERGAVEL
  A gavel or rent paid for a privilege, as of fishing, in some river or water.
• Spriteful
  Alt. of Spritely
• WATERRAM
  An hydraulic ram.
• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• WATERJOINT
  A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
• Sprunt
  To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.
• WATERSOUCHY
  A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water. [Written also water souchet.] See Zoutch.
• Water leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Waterweed
  See Anacharis.
• WATERMEASURER
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• Water bath
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• WATERTIGER
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.

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