water butt

noun

a barrel for collecting rainwater, esp from a drainpipe

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Which of the options below is the best punctuation for the sentence? It__s your turn to pick the movie __ but your sister gets to pick the board game we _ re going to play.

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Words nearby water butt

water bouget, water boy, water brash, water buffalo, water bug, water butt, water cannon, water carrier, water chestnut, water chinquapin, water clock

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Example sentences from the Web for water butt

When they went out of doors Lass was standing deserted, with her nose over the water-butt.
The Pioneers|Katharine Susannah Prichard
There was only that heap and the wall between him and the water-butt!
A Rough Shaking|George MacDonald
Now there is a water-butt at the junction of the annexe and the main building.
A Floating Home|Cyril Ionides
In one, an unknown man was found head down in a water-butt outside a country bungalow.
Scotland Yard|George Dilnot

But he could not forget the water-butt—proximate mother of the child.
A Rough Shaking|George MacDonald