The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waterwork \Wa"ter*work`\, n.
(Paint.) Painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls, -- formerly, frequently taking the place of tapestry.
--Shak. Fairholt.An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context arts English) painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls 2 (context chiefly in the plural English) A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, such as dams, sluices, fountains, etc.
Usage examples of "waterwork".
Since the very start, several groups had declared their opposition to the construction of Luna and the Waterworks, the first permanent settlement on the Moon and an ice mine to help support it.
There were pea-sized transponders buried every thousand meters of the winding route between where Luna was being built and the Waterworks, which was up nearer to the north pole.
Like Robyn had told Freedman, the trip from Luna to the Waterworks usually took Kaze about twenty-three hours.
Behind that were three boxcars, each loaded with materials which were to go to the Waterworks on the next run anyway.
A more direct line to the Waterworks would take us over more difficult terrain.
On it slid toward the distant Waterworks in a blazing red cloud, like it had driven up out of Hell and was coming to deliver the devil.
A minute later he was bounding across the ground toward the Waterworks, racing against time.
I set fire to things more or less at random in between, and tried to find the waterworks, or some other worth-while target.
At this point are the waterworks, erected recently with modern machinery, to take the place of the insanitary wells on which the town had been dependent.
He halted on the first night near the waterworks, halfway upon his journey.
Across the veld, some miles from the waterworks, there runs a deep donga or watercourse--one of many, but the largest.
The victory left the Boers in possession of the waterworks, and Bloemfontein had to fall back upon her wells--a change which reacted most disastrously upon the enteric which was already decimating the troops.
By evening we had regained the waterworks, a most important point for Bloemfontein, and we held all the line of hills which command it.
Being reinforced upon the morning after the capture of the Waterworks by the Highland Brigade, the Cornwalls, and two heavy naval guns, his whole force amounted to not less than seven thousand men.
From these he detached a garrison for the Waterworks, and with the rest he continued his march over the hilly country which lies between them and Thabanchu.