Word Meanings - SHINGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

• WATERSNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail. 2. (Mech.)
• Water hammer
  A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
• Water thief
  A pirate.
• WATERICE
  Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.
• Roundsmen
  of Roundsman
• WATERTHIEF
  A pirate. [R.] Shak.
• Water junket
  The common sandpiper.
• Water violet
  See under Violet.
• WATERLOGGED
  Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.
• Water antelope
  See Water buck.
• WATERVIPER
  See Water moccasin.
• Water-logged
  Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.
• COMMONSENSE
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• WATEROAT
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• Waterboard
  A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
• Water motor
  A water engine.
• WATERBATH
  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.
• WATERPLATE
  A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.
• Water cart
  A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
• Water pig
  The capybara.

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