watering pot
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It is then thoroughly watered through a fine-rosed watering pot and allowed to settle until the next day, when it is beaten solid by the back of a wooden shovel.
From Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure by Falconer, William
The cover of the full hive should be removed, and the bees gently sprinkled with sugar-water from a watering pot that discharges a fine stream.
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)
After that, she said to her: "Go again into the garden, and you will find six lizards behind the watering pot; bring them to me."
From The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Clarke, Harry
You will find two lizards behind the watering pot.
From Story Hour Readers — Book Three by Coe, Ida
After laying a good piece, sprinkle a little with a watering pot, if the sods are dry; then use the back of the spade to smooth them a little.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
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