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Word Meanings - TEAKETTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

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  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • WATERWORT
    Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
  • WATER SHREW
    Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
  • WATER-TIGHT
    So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
  • WATER RAT
    The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate.
  • WATER CRAKE
    The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
  • WATER DOG
    A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
  • WATER SAIL
    A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
  • WATER CLOCK
    An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • WATERIE
    The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
  • WATER BALLAST
    Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
  • KETTLEDRUM
    A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it. Note: Kettledrums, in pairs, were formerly used in martial music for cavalry, but are now chiefly confined to orchestras, where they
  • WATER RAM
    An hydraulic ram.
  • WATER LINE
    Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several
  • WATER LOCUST
    A thorny leguminous tree which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
  • WATERING
    a. & n. from Water, v. Watering call , 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 place where water may be
  • WATER PARSNIP
    Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
  • WATERWORN
    Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • OVERBOIL
    To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.

 

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