water-butt
water-butt is the alternative form of water butt.
Meaning of water butt
Noun
water butt (plural water butts)
- An open-ended barrel used to contain rainwater; a rain barrel
- 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...1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
Forms of water-butt
| plural | water-butts |
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Questions about water-butt
- What is water-butt the alternative form of?
- Water-butt is the alternative form of water butt.
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