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.
- Water deck
A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. - Water rat
The water vole. See under Vole. - WATERCROWFOOT
An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers. - 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. - WATERTREFOIL
The buck bean.
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