Word Meanings - UNDERDRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.

• Waterfall
  A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
• Water screw
  A screw propeller.
• WATERFLAG
  A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
• Drainpipe
  A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
• Water gas
  See under Gas.
• Water sprite
  A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water.
• WATERGRASS
  The water cress. (3)
• Percolated
  of Percolate
• Waterhorse
  A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
• Water tower
  A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
• WATERLEG
  See Leg, 7.
• Trench-plough
  To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
• Water lemon
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Water wheel
  Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an i
• WATERMITE
  Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidæ, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-
• Water battery
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
• Watermelon
  The very large ovoid or roundish fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of many varieties; also, the plant itself. The fruit sometimes weighs many pounds; its pulp is usually pink in color, and full of a sweet watery juice. It is a n
• WATERAGRIMONY
  A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
• WATERPIET
  The water ousel.
• Water bridge
  See Water table.

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