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ditchwaters

ditchwaters is the plural of ditchwater.

Meaning of ditchwater

Noun

ditchwater (usually uncountable, plural ditchwaters)

  1. (usually) The stagnant water that collects in a ditch.
    • The company, therefore, took their places, and addressed themselves to the serious business of the feast, but were soon disturbed by the hypochondriac, who thrust back his chair, complaining that a dish of stewed toads and vipers was set before him, and that there was green ditchwater in his cup of...1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Christmas Banquet”, in Mosses from an Old Manse

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What is ditchwaters the plural of?
Ditchwaters is the plural of ditchwater.

Words near ditchwaters in the dictionary

  1. ditchlike
  2. Ditchling
  3. ditchside
  4. ditchsides
  5. ditchwater
  6. ditchwaters
  7. ditchweed
  8. ditchy
  9. dite
  10. ditechnetium
  11. dited

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