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stock pond

stock pond noun: an artificial pond used for watering livestock.

Noun

stock pond (plural stock ponds)

  1. An artificial pond used for watering livestock.
    • That's how you find the life out here, the coyote on a far ridge, the pronghorn moving toward the stock pond, the rattler, the small burrowing owl. The life that illuminates and gives meaning to spare ground.1989 February 5, Kay Whitlock, “Letter from Colorado”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 11
  2. A pond that is stocked with fish for food or recreation.

Forms of stock pond

pluralstock ponds

Questions about stock pond

What does stock pond mean?
Stock pond means an artificial pond used for watering livestock.
What part of speech is stock pond?
Stock pond is a noun.
What is the plural of stock pond?
The plural of stock pond is stock ponds.

Words near stock pond in the dictionary

  1. stock phrases
  2. stock picker
  3. stock pickers
  4. stock pigeon
  5. stock pigeons
  6. stock pond
  7. stock pot
  8. stock pots
  9. stock price
  10. stock prices
  11. stock prod

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