dew pond

British  

noun

1. a shallow pond, usually man-made, that is kept supplied with water by dew and condensation

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Example Sentences

The construction of dew ponds is, however, still practised on traditional lines, and it is said that a new dew pond has first to be filled artificially.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

The following are some notes of the rise in a dew pond caused by winter fogs on the Berkshire Downs.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)

After such fogs, though rain may not have fallen for a month, and there is no water channel or spring near the dew pond, the water in it rises prodigiously.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)