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water butt en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An open-ended barrel used to contain rainwater; a rain barrel
   • The house was silent save for the wind outside, and the noisy trickling and splattering of water in the water-butts. 1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in The Rainbow, New York: The Modern Library, page 72:
   • It would have been better, as it turned out, to have led gently up to this announcement, for Mrs. Micawber, being in a delicate state of health, was overcome by it, and was taken so unwell, that Mr. Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with. 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
   • Trumpkin went to a flat stone about the size of the top of a water-butt, and stamped on it with his foot. 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:

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fi sadevesisäiliö (barrel for holding rainwater) · bg бъчва за дъждовна вода (barrel for holding rainwater) · de Regentonne (barrel for holding rainwater) · nl regenton (barrel for holding rainwater)