Word Meanings - WATERFOWL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.

• Water hammer
  A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer.
• Water thief
  A pirate.
• WATERLAVEROCK
  The common sandpiper.
• Water junket
  The common sandpiper.
• Water violet
  See under Violet.
• WATERMINT
  A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
• Water antelope
  See Water buck.
• Water-logged
  Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.
• ABOUTSLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• WATERPENNYWORT
  Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.
• Waterboard
  A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
• Water motor
  A water engine.
• WATERBELLOWS
  Same as Tromp.
• WATERPURSLANE
  See under Purslane.
• Water cart
  A cart carrying water; esp., one carrying water for sale, or for sprinkling streets, gardens, etc.
• Water pig
  The capybara.
• WATERCAVY
  The capybara.
• WATERSHIELD
  An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• Water craft
  Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
• Waterproofing
  The act or process of making waterproof.

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