Word Meanings - WATERTENDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Officer
  One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
• WATERAGRIMONY
  A kind of bur marigold (Bidens tripartita) found in wet places in Europe.
• Thereof
  Of that or this.
• WATERPIET
  The water ousel.
• 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.
• Rataplan
  The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.
• WATERBIRD
  Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.
• Unitarianized
  of Unitarianize
• WATERQUALM
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• Ratification
  The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.
• WATERCELERY
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• Unitude
  Unity.
• WATERSHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species (Crossopus fodiens, and C. ciliatus) are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew (Neosorex palustris)
• Water leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Rationalistic
  Alt. of Rationalistical
• 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.
• 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.

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