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water butts

water butts is the plural of water butt.

Meaning of water butt

Noun

water butt (plural water butts)

  1. 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

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What is water butts the plural of?
Water butts is the plural of water butt.

Words near water butts in the dictionary

  1. water bug
  2. water bugs
  3. water bus
  4. water buses
  5. water butt
  6. water butts
  7. water cabbage
  8. water caltrop
  9. water caltrops
  10. water camper
  11. water campers

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