watering pot
Britishnoun
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They found underfoot a bare floor; it had been sprinkled from a watering pot earlier in the afternoon.
From The Desert Valley by Jackson Gregory
She insisted on bleaching it also, and flew about among the long grass, with her bright watering pot, like a living flower sprung up in the wilderness.
From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Caroline Lee Hentz
She had still the watering pot in one hand; with the other her pretty dress was held lightly aside, to avoid trickling drops.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
She takes a heavy watering pot and—ugh! it gives me the shivers—pours thousands of icy, silvery threads over the roses or into the hollows of those little stone troughs, 'way back in the woods.
From Barks and Purrs by Colette
I can say no more than that in his hands that watering pot looked fairly silly.
From The Killer by Stewart Edward White
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