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waterbutt

waterbutt is the alternative form 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

Forms of waterbutt

pluralwaterbutts

Questions about waterbutt

What is waterbutt the alternative form of?
Waterbutt is the alternative form of water butt.

Words near waterbutt in the dictionary

  1. Waterbury Center
  2. Waterburys
  3. waterbus
  4. waterbuses
  5. waterbush
  6. waterbutt
  7. waterbutts
  8. watercarrier
  9. watercarriers
  10. watercise
  11. watercleft

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