watering pot
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Have a watering pot full of water at hand.
From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy
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
She left rose bush and watering pot, chaise and pony, to Lewis's management, and gladly let the doctor take her up beside him.
From Melbourne House, Volume 2 by Warner, Susan
The bituminous material may be applied by means of hand spreading cans not unlike an ordinary garden watering pot, except that a slotted nozzle is substituted for the ordinary perforated one.
From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)
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
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