watering potn.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːt(ə)rɪŋ ˌpɒt/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdərɪŋ ˌpɑt/,

/ˈwɑdərɪŋ ˌpɑt/

Forms: see watering n. and pot n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: watering n., pot n.¹

Etymology: < watering n. + pot n.¹

1. A portable container used for watering plants, typically made of metal or (more recently) plastic, with a spout ending in a perforated nozzle or rose to sprinkle the water. Cf. watering can n. at watering n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > watering apparatus

watering pot1448

water-pot1530

garden pot1548

watering can1685

watering pan1702

spout head1733

garden engine1744

chantepleure1842

waterer1884

1448–50 Discharge Stephen Brown f. 153^v, in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. Payed to William Harlingrigge for j barwe laborers fflaundres pakthred, wateringe pottes and Bromes.

1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. F/2 Vne chantepleure, a garden pot, a watering pot.

1620 I. C. Two Merry Milke-maids i. ii. sig. B4 What, doe you weepe Brother? Dor. Like a Watring-Pot; he wud make an excellent Fountaine in the midst of a Garden.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 82 As watring pots give flowers their lives.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 546 The Duke then took one of his silver watering-pots, which was two feet and an half high.

1783 S. Johnson Let. 24 June (1994) IV. 158 This day I watered the garden, and did not find the watering pots more heavy than they have hitherto been.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist iii. iii. 499 The whole of the hillocks should be watered, from a watering-pot with the rose on.

1856 Punch 5 Jan. 7/1 The slow, uncertain trickling of a watering-pot.

1915 A. Quiller-Couch Nicky-Nan xiii. 168 She set down her watering-pot.

2008 News-Jrnl. (Daytona Beach, Florida) (Nexis) 7 June 1 e Rather than taking the watering pot and sprinkling your plants each day, give them a good soaking occasionally.

2. Also watering-pot shell. Any of several burrowing marine bivalve molluscs constituting the family Clavagellidae, which live inside an unusual ‘shell’ secreted by the mollusc and consisting of a calcareous tube encrusted with sand grains, terminating in an expanded perforated plate. Also: the calcareous tube itself.Some genera are sometimes placed in a separate family Penicillidae.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Gastrochaenidae

watering-pot shell1776

water-pot shell?a1813

saxicave1826

rock borer1835

tube-shell1861

flask-shell1868

tubivalve1882

1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 150 The Watering-pot..from the East Indies, is the chief kind, and, when perfect is much valued.

1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands v. 106 The Watering-pot Shell (Aspergillum) is well known to conchologists.

1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 283 The most noticeable species is the ‘watering pot’ Aspergillum vaginiferum... This species comes from the Red Sea.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs x. 195 A strange offshoot is seen in the family Clavagellidae, the watering-pot shells, surely the least recognizable of all bivalves.

2008 R. C. Willan in P. Hutchings et al. Great Barrier Reef xxiv. 278 The watering pots..are the most bizarre and aberrant of all bivalves.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	watering pot
释义	watering potn. Brit. /ˈwɔːt(ə)rɪŋ ˌpɒt/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərɪŋ ˌpɑt/, /ˈwɑdərɪŋ ˌpɑt/ Forms: see watering n. and pot n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: watering n., pot n.¹ Etymology: < watering n. + pot n.¹ 1. A portable container used for watering plants, typically made of metal or (more recently) plastic, with a spout ending in a perforated nozzle or rose to sprinkle the water. Cf. watering can n. at watering n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > watering apparatus watering pot1448 water-pot1530 garden pot1548 watering can1685 watering pan1702 spout head1733 garden engine1744 chantepleure1842 waterer1884 1448–50 Discharge Stephen Brown f. 153^v, in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. Payed to William Harlingrigge for j barwe laborers fflaundres pakthred, wateringe pottes and Bromes. 1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. F/2 Vne chantepleure, a garden pot, a watering pot. 1620 I. C. Two Merry Milke-maids i. ii. sig. B4 What, doe you weepe Brother? Dor. Like a Watring-Pot; he wud make an excellent Fountaine in the midst of a Garden. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 82 As watring pots give flowers their lives. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 546 The Duke then took one of his silver watering-pots, which was two feet and an half high. 1783 S. Johnson Let. 24 June (1994) IV. 158 This day I watered the garden, and did not find the watering pots more heavy than they have hitherto been. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist iii. iii. 499 The whole of the hillocks should be watered, from a watering-pot with the rose on. 1856 Punch 5 Jan. 7/1 The slow, uncertain trickling of a watering-pot. 1915 A. Quiller-Couch Nicky-Nan xiii. 168 She set down her watering-pot. 2008 News-Jrnl. (Daytona Beach, Florida) (Nexis) 7 June 1 e Rather than taking the watering pot and sprinkling your plants each day, give them a good soaking occasionally. 2. Also watering-pot shell. Any of several burrowing marine bivalve molluscs constituting the family Clavagellidae, which live inside an unusual ‘shell’ secreted by the mollusc and consisting of a calcareous tube encrusted with sand grains, terminating in an expanded perforated plate. Also: the calcareous tube itself.Some genera are sometimes placed in a separate family Penicillidae. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Gastrochaenidae watering-pot shell1776 water-pot shell?a1813 saxicave1826 rock borer1835 tube-shell1861 flask-shell1868 tubivalve1882 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 150 The Watering-pot..from the East Indies, is the chief kind, and, when perfect is much valued. 1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands v. 106 The Watering-pot Shell (Aspergillum) is well known to conchologists. 1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 283 The most noticeable species is the ‘watering pot’ Aspergillum vaginiferum... This species comes from the Red Sea. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs x. 195 A strange offshoot is seen in the family Clavagellidae, the watering-pot shells, surely the least recognizable of all bivalves. 2008 R. C. Willan in P. Hutchings et al. Great Barrier Reef xxiv. 278 The watering pots..are the most bizarre and aberrant of all bivalves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1448
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