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ˈwater-pool
A pool of water (large or small).
13..St. Cristofore 839 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 464 Me hase thoghte þis fyre als cole Als I had lyggene in a water polle. 1535Coverdale 1 Macc. ix. 33 Ionathas and Symon his brother..pitched their tentes by the water pole of Asphar. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Adelph. iv. ii. (1607) 304 At the very waterpoole [apud ipsum lacum] there is a hand-mill. 1849Carlyle New Lett. (1904) II. 72 Eternal Silence of the mountains and their melancholy water-pools. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. iv. 115 Her little hand trembled as it touched Angus Hamleigh's, when he led her across a craggy bit of path, or over a tiny water-pool. 1913Blackw. Mag. Nov. 592/1 We stopped to ask the latest news of tribes and water-pools. |