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English Dictionary: watering place by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
watering place
n
  1. a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole, spa]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Watering \Wa"ter*ing\,
      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) (Zo[94]l.) 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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