Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pipe or trough for discharging water from a building.
- noun A shoot from the root of a tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
- noun (Arch.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
- noun A trough for discharging water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
sprig orshoot from theroot orstock of atree . - noun obsolete, architecture That which serves to
guard fromfalling water ; adrip ordripstone . - noun obsolete A
trough for discharging water.
Etymologies
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water + shoot
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Examples
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Away we went – it was better than any watershoot – and landed just at the foot of the rock on which the Padre of Berisha stood.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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It was gradually, however, that the question rose in her mind: could these two have been the nightly intruders on the forbidden ground of the workshop, and afterwards the victims of the watershoot?
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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It was gradually, however, that the question rose in her mind: could these two have been the nightly intruders on the forbidden ground of the workshop, and afterwards the victims of the watershoot?
St. George and St. Michael Volume III George MacDonald 1864
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