watering : Idioms & Phrases

• (Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses.

Webster 1913

• noun water cart with a tank and sprinkler for sprinkling roads
  

WordNet

• a sprinkling cart. See Water.

Webster 1913

• noun a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
  watering hole; spa.
  

WordNet

• . (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.

Webster 1913

• noun a container with a handle and a spout with a perforated nozzle; used to sprinkle water over plants
  watering can.
  

WordNet

• . (a) A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, used for watering flowers, paths, etc. (b) (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913

• a trough from which cattle, horses, and other animals drink.

Webster 1913