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/wˈɔtərɪŋ pleɪs/ Listen

noun

Watering n. A. & n. from Water, v.

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.

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"Watering place" Quotes from Famous Books

... practically abandoned by Louis XVI, the palace at Marly was sold during the Revolution, after which it was stripped of its art treasures, many of which adorn the gardens of the Tuileries to-day; the great group of horses at the entrance to the Champs Elysees came from the watering place ...

— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... sheep trail, a path," said Alex. "That's a trail they make coming down regularly from the high country beyond. It looks to me as though they might have a watering place, or maybe a lick, over in there somewhere. It looks so good to me, at least, that I ...

— The Young Alaskans on the Trail • Emerson Hough

... nothing is more simple than to use one's Wiesbaden at home, by using the salt cellar. The cure may then be completed by distributing over a whole year the thirty warm baths which have to be taken during the season at that watering place. The bath at 40 Celsius is a real boon for arthritic persons. The warmer it is, whether salt or not, the better it acts in producing an exuberant perspiration, and the less is one apt to catch cold when ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 • Various

... the fashionable watering place of all Colorado, was to be our next stopping place. Leaving Denver on the night of October 27th, we were obliged to change from the broad-gauge cars in which we had been traveling, into narrow-gauge cars, in which we journeyed as far as Ogden, and they seemed ...

— A Ball Player's Career - Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson • Adrian C. Anson

... I pulled back to the ship. The watering place was some little way from the town. The signal was made for the boats to take the watering party on shore. It was considered necessary at the same time, as a precautionary measure, to send a strong body of men on shore to protect the others, and, accordingly, ...

— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston

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