watering placen.
/ˈwɔːt(ə)rɪŋ ˌpleɪs/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərɪŋ ˌpleɪs/, /ˈwɑdərɪŋ ˌpleɪs/ 1. A place at a river, lake, etc., where animals are able to drink; esp. one where cattle and horses are taken to drink. Also: a pool or trough containing drinking water for horses or livestock.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > place where animals obtain water > [noun]
watering placea1387
wateringc1405
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > supplying with water > [noun] > for animals > watering-trough
watering placea1387
watering trough1530
cattle-trough1887
bore1936
drinker1947
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 303 (MED) He made þe ȝerdes splekked, and leyde hem in þe waterynge place [L. canalibus aquarum] to fore þe schepes eyȝen, whan þey schulde conceyue lambren liche.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 518 Watrynge place, where beestys byn wateryd, adaquarium.
1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 168 Item via de principio ultra et prope Newgate ad finem viæ ultra le Weere et le wateryng-place prope le graunt orchard continet..500 gressus.
1558 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 119 For maykyng of wattryng places in the Cowpasture.
1647 Perfect Occurr. Parl. No. 6 43 A Servant of Sir Thomas Pelhams being to water his Horses in the Thames riding under the wall of Worcester House, an usual watering place, his Horses stared.
1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 76 A Fountain and a Watering-place for Horses.
1746 Gen. Advertiser 23 Dec. The People have been obliged to cut Watering-places in the Forests, in order to preserve the Beasts from perishing with Thirst.
1769 Act for Dividing & Inclosing Common Fields Aclome (Act 9 Geo. III) c. 103 (6) Such Part or Parts of the..uninclosed Grounds, as the said Commissioners..may..set out for any common watering Place or Places.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 223 The brink of the Clyde, at a spot marked with the feet of horses who were conducted to it as a watering-place.
1887 J. C. Frémont Mem. 42 Buffalo-trails leading to some accustomed great watering-place.
1919 J. Masefield Battle of Somme 65 About midway in the village, the abreuvoir, or village watering-place for stock, opened from the road.
1990 J. F. Vallentine Grazing Managem. iv. 84 On highly productive grazing lands, it may be realistic to provide at least one watering place per section.
2.
a. A place where a supply of water for human use is available.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > place where animals obtain water > [noun] > water-hole
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watering1564
watering place1570
waterhole1653
sand-hole1897
1570 G. Fenton tr. J. de Serres Disc. Ciuile Warres Fraunce iii. 187 His artillery..began to batter a Towre of the syde of the gate du Barle, right against the watring place.
1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 288 Wee had all sortes of refreshments untill certayne Portingalls..forbid and defended the watering-place.
1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 204 A fair Fountain in the Wall, and under the Fountain a large watering-place.
1715 F. Borland Memoirs of Darien 10 The watering place belonging to our Fort, was but a small Rivulet, and almost half a mile distant therefrom.
1784 C. Eversfield Jrnl. Journey from Bassora to Bagdad 62 At this watering place (a large well, sunk in the desert) we arrived about ten o'clock, and pitched our tents.
1835 New-Eng. Mag. June 475 For many years, it was the watering-place, and, as it were, the wash-bowl of the vicinity—whither all decent folks resorted, to purify their visages.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 280 The Jordan..is..still the ‘Sheriat el-Khebir’, the ‘great watering-place’ of the Bedouin tribes.
1900 Local Govt. Ireland Fabian Tract No. 99 15 The parish council of Humshaugh (Northumberland) has bought the freehold of a small piece of land,..so as to secure for ever a public watering place.
2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Feb. a13 After she finished her chores at the watering place, Zilice crossed the street to buy a small bag of rice and beans to feed her children.
b. spec. A place where fresh water for a ship can be obtained or taken in.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > place to renew supplies > of water
watering1582
watering place1582
1582 E. Fenton Jrnl. 10 Aug. in E. G. R. Taylor Troublesome Voy. Capt. E. Fenton (1959) 100 Roode in 10 fathom water within fawconett shott of the Wateringe place.
1613 J. Saris Jrnl. in Voy. Japan (1900) 3 The 16th we anchored at the watering place called Tinga Jaua, being 14 leagues from Bantam.
1672 J. Narbrough Jrnl. 10 Aug. in R. C. Anderson Jrnls. & Narr. Third Dutch War (1946) (modernized text) 137 The best watering-place at Bridlington is a mile to the northward of the pier.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 219 We sent the..Boats..to the Watering Place.
1777 G. W. Beekman Let. 9 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1300 The Kings Troops are all Embarked and Lay at the Watering Place With Three hundred Transports Ships.
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Watering-place, a situation where boats can load with fresh water for the use of ships.
1879 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 29 Sept. This watering place is not known to shipping.
1919 Eng. Hist. Rev. July 283 The chief remaining watering-place on the direct route between the Comoros and home waters.
2003 J. G. Taylor Indonesia v. 138 Ambon became favored as a watering place for boats sailing between Java and Maluku.
3. A resort or town, esp. a fashionable or popular one, where visitors go to drink or bathe in the water of mineral springs, or to bathe in the sea. Now chiefly historical.
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > place frequented for bathing > fashionable mineral spring or sea resort
watering place1757
1757 S. Foote Author i. 11 Tunbridge, Bristol, and the other watering Places.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xiv. 27 A Watering Place does not want the help of the sea to make it execrable; the inland Spa is not a jot behind the Fishing-town in the article of tortures.
1822 Let. 11 June in W. Irving Life & Lett. (1862) II. 60 I shall..go to a watering-place on the continent (Aix-la-Chapelle), where I hope thoroughly to reinstate my health.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 652 Teignmouth, now a gay watering place consisting of twelve hundred houses.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. lvi. 247 In a quarter of an hour the news..spread through every street and villa of the popular watering-place.
1942 E. Ferber Saratoga Trunk (new ed.) xiii. 259 A convicted murderer and an art dealer conduct a gambling house in the most famous watering-place in America.
2005 Heritage Mar. 61/2 With the mineral spring discovered on Scarborough beach, this heralded the beginnings of the seaside watering place.
Compounds
General attributive (in sense 3), as watering-place day, watering-place manners, watering-place season, etc.
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1795 Sporting Mag. 141/1 Watering-Place Anecdote.
1817 J. Austen Sanditon vi, in Minor Wks. (1954) 389 The very quietest part of a Watering-place Day.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 93 Such watering-place manners as I saw at Rockaway are considered and called vulgar on the spot.
1843 S. Lover Handy Andy (new ed.) xlviii. 358 The Honourable Sackville Scatterbrain,..fortunately for himself, had knocked up a watering-place match.
1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody viii. 88 The long round of watering-place dissipations.
1907 Town & Country 29 June 24/1 The watering-place season will be late, possibly on account of the unprecedented travel abroad.
2007 P. A. Jones Oak Bluffs 7 One of the most complete and superb watering-place hotels in the world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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