Word Meanings - WATERPLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. Knight.

• Water chestnut
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• WATERTOWER
  A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
• Water plant
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
• KNIGHTTEMPLAR
  See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
• Double-tongued
  Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
• Water crowfoot
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
• WATERWITHE
  A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.
• Water rail
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• 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.
• Heathenishness
  The state or quality of being heathenish.
• WATERHYACINTH
  Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.
• Water engine
  An engine to raise water; or an engine moved by water; also, an engine or machine for extinguishing fires; a fire engine.
• Waterscape
  A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.
• WATERCART
  A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
• Knighted
  of Knight
• WATERLOCUST
  A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
• Water gall
  A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.
• Water spinner
  The water spider.
• WATERCRANE
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Knightless
  Unbecoming a knight.

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