Watering \Wa"ter*ing\,
a. & n. from Water, v.
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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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