watering call

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watering call - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Watering \Wa"ter*ing\,
     a. & n. from Water, v.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Watering call (Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning
        cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering
        their horses.
  
     Watering cart, a sprinkling cart. See Water.
  
     Watering place.
     (a) A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for
         cattle, etc.
     (b) A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a
         place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to
         which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating,
         etc.
  
     Watering pot.
     (a) A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated
         nozzle, -- used for watering flowers, paths, etc.
     (b) (Zool.) Any one of several species of marine bivalve
         shells of the genus Aspergillum, or Brechites. The
         valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious
         calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. The tube
         is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated
         by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of
         a watering pot.
  
     Watering trough, a trough from which cattle, horses, and
        other animals drink.
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