watering potn.
/ˈwɔːt(ə)rɪŋ ˌpɒt/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərɪŋ ˌpɑt/, /ˈwɑdərɪŋ ˌpɑt/ 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.
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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. 153v, 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).
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