watering pot
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 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
This was put on with a watering pot every two weeks, thus Peter kept his potatoes quite free from bugs.
From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw
This water should be put on with a gardener's watering pot, as equally as possible.
From The American Practical Brewer and Tanner by Joseph Coppinger
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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