Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel, usually a somewhat tall can, most often of cylindrical section, sometimes oval, with a long spout springing from near the base, used forwatering plants and for other similar purposes, as sprinkling sidewalks.
- noun In conchology, any species of the genus Aspergillum, as A. vaginiferum.
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Examples
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He respected learned men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer evening with a tin watering-pot painted green.
Les Miserables 2008
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MRS. SOLNESS moves about noiselessly with a small watering-pot, attending to her flowers.
The Master Builder 2008
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The sound of the watering-pot on the leaves filled Father
Les Miserables 2008
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MRS. SOLNESS moves about noiselessly with a small watering-pot, attending to her flowers.
The Master Builder 2008
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Refreshment-room full, platform full, porter with watering-pot deliberately cooling a hot wheel, another porter with equal deliberation helping the rest of the wheels bountifully to ice cream.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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Next, by means of a watering-pot, he poured in sufficient water to rise to the same level in the large vessel and in the tiny circular funnel at the end of the elder stem.
The Magic Skin 2007
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Well, I went outside this morning to find we finally had FROST on the ground, and the strawberry plant all frozen into its watering-pot as if in the middle of its own ice-skating rink.
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It was the end of July — dry, too dry, even for the season, the delicate green herbs and vegetables that grew in this favoured end of the kingdom tasting rather of the watering-pot than of the pure fresh moisture from the skies.
A Changed Man 2006
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I should not have known that she cared for me, had it not been for a letter which she wrote me a month afterwards — THEN, nobody was by, and the consequence was that the letter was half washed away with her weeping; if she had used a watering-pot the thing could not have been better done.
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She dropped her watering-pot, and stepped down from the pedestal.
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