Word Meanings - WATERSUPPLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A supply of water; specifically, water collected, as in reservoirs, and conveyed, as by pipes, for use in a city, mill, or the like.

• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATERTORCH
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• WATERFURROW
  A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry.
• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
• WATERHOREHOUND
  Bugleweed.
• Collector
  One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• WATERLIZARD
  Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.
• Water leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Waterweed
  See Anacharis.
• WATERNEWT
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.
• Water bath
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• Water measurer
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.

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