stewponds

Noun

stewpond (plural stewponds)

1. Synonym of stew (“a pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating”).
   • Then, there is a dovecote, some delightful stewponds, and a very pretty canal; and everything, in short, that one could wish for: and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour...1811, Jane Austen, chapter 30, in Sense and Sensibility

   Synonyms:

   stew