Word Meanings - CATCHWATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERCURE
  Hydropathy. 2. A hydropathic institution.
• WATERTHIEF
  A pirate. [R.] Shak.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• WATERFLANNEL
  A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
• 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.
• WATERGRUEL
  A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.
• Catchweed
  See Cleavers.
• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• WATERLEMON
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Drainpipe
  A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
• Water leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Waterweed
  See Anacharis.
• WATERMOCCASIN
  A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
• 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.
• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.

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