watershoot

Noun

watershoot (plural watershoots)

1. A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree or other plant.
   • Looking up, Pinckney was fascinated by the tangle above, the soaring air shoots and water shoots, the sagging lianas, cable-thick and tufted with orchids, orchids that imitated birds and butterflies, dun-coloured orchids, variegated orchids, orchids coloured like parrots, orchids festooned like the...1916, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Mound of Darkness
2. Something which serves to guard from falling water
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   • The parapet of one is plain and solid, with a row of holes under it to let off the water, a general fashion in Ireland, sometimes with watershoots and sometimes not.1860, John Henry Parker, “Observations on the Ancient Domestic Architecture of Ireland”, in Archaeologia

   Synonyms:

   drip, dripstone, hoodmold, headmold, throating

3. A trough for discharging water.
   • :Template:..}a deal of rain having fallen, and all the troughs in the yard being flooded, and the bark from the wood-ricks washed down the gutters, and even our water-shoot going brown1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC