Word Meanings - WATERBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.

• Waterlander
  Alt. of Waterlandian
• Water vole
  See under Vole.
• WATERMOCCASIN
  A venomous North American snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.
• Water back
  See under 1st Back.
• Waterman
  A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
• WATERALOE
  See Water soldier.
• WATERPIG
  The capybara. 2. (Zoöl.)
• Waterbok
  A water buck.
• Water murrain
  A kind of murrain affecting cattle.
• WATERBLACKBIRD
  The European water ousel, or dipper.
• WATERRABBIT
  See Water hare.
• Water celery
  A very acrid herb (Ranunculus sceleratus) growing in ditches and wet places; -- called also cursed crowfoot.
• Water pimpernel
  A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
• WATERCELL
  A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.
• WATERSNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail. 2. (Mech.)
• Water crane
  A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.
• Water qualm
  See Water brash, under Brash.
• WATERCURE
  Hydropathy. 2. A hydropathic institution.
• WATERTHIEF
  A pirate. [R.] Shak.
• Water eagle
  The osprey.

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