Word Meanings - WATERBUTT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water. Dickens.

• Water crake
  The dipper.
• Water purslane
  See under Purslane.
• WATERCHICKWEED
  A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.
• Headbeard
  A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.
• WATERSHIELD
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• Water dropwort
  A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.
• Water-rotting
  of Water-rot
• WATERDOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Headlight
  A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel.
• WATERTENDER
  In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He "tends" water to the boilers, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer.
• Water frame
  A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
• Water spaniel
  A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.
• WATERFURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Headsail
  Any sail set forward of the foremast.
• WATERVINE
  Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice.
• Water hare
  A small American hare or rabbit (Lepus aquaticus) found on or near the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also water rabbit, and swamp hare.
• Water thrush
  A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis).
• WATERHOREHOUND
  Bugleweed.
• Large-acred
  Possessing much land.
• Water-laid
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.

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