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Webster 1913 Edition
Watering
Wa′ter-ing
,Watering call
(Mil.)
, a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses.
– Watering cart
, a sprinkling cart. See
– Water
. Watering place
. (a)
A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for cattle, etc.
(b)
A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating, etc.
– Watering pot
. (a)
A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, – used for watering flowers, paths, etc.
(b)
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of marine bivalve shells of the genus
– Aspergillum
, or Brechites
. The valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. The tube is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of a watering pot. Watering trough
, a trough from which cattle, horses, and other animals drink.
Webster 1828 Edition
Watering
WATERING
,ppr.
WATERING
,Noun.
1.
The act of overflowing or sprinkling with water; the act of supplying with water for drink or other purposes; the act of wetting and calendering for giving luster to, as cloth.2.
The place where water is supplied.