water-can

The plant is too succulent to endure drought with impunity, and it is mere folly to toy with the water-can.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

The month of October is, notwithstanding its lack of floral ornaments, one in which the amount of work to be done is by no means inconsiderable, and the pretty little girl, with her hoe and water-can, drawn on p. 241, evidently thinks as much.

Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

I stood, with my faded water-pot carelessly dangling from three fingers of one hand, looking so absorbedly down the avenue after the vanishing outlines of a glittering carriage that had just rolled splendidly by, that the dregs of my water-can trickled all unheeded by me, down the side of my new sateen frock, accomplishing what, in the eyes of my step-mother, would seem nothing less than an absolute ruin and wreck.

The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

Coming towards the village was a girl with a water-can in either hand.

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

One night, the cabin boy left the water-can sitting on the cabin floor, instead of putting it on the sideboard, where it usually stood.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

They squat you upon a low shelf, with a sort of a water-can "rose"

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 Various

Derrick took this opportunity to secure his lunch-pail and water-can, which he slung by their chains over his shoulder.

Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

Washing water and drinking water were served out twice a day, at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., an ordinary water-can being the allowance of the former, and a water-bottle that of the latter.

Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes

One by one he emptied the jugs and the water-can, and then descended to his own flat, fiendishly triumphant, as he thought of the havoc he must have made in GIDLING's fire-place.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 Various

He took the water-can and poured its contents over himself.

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