Word Meanings - WATERPIPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pipe for conveying water.

• Water lizard
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Waterwort
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• WATERPARTRIDGE
  The ruddy duck. [Local, U. S.]
• Water bird
  Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
• Water mole
  The shrew mole. See under Shrew.
• WATERBEETLE
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidæ, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidæ. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like oars.
• WATERPRIVILEGE
  The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
• Water canker
  See Canker, n., 1.
• Water pheasant
  The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1.
• WATERCART
  A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
• WATERSCREW
  A screw propeller.
• Water-colorist
  One who paints in water colors.
• Water privilege
  The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
• WATERCRANE
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• WATERTABLE
  A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the
• Water drain
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• Water rice
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• WATERENGINE
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• WATERTUTWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• Water flounder
  The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).

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