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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
birdbath
noun
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▪ Based in Washington state, Torrens also makes birdbaths, sprinklers and sundials from recycled industrial materials.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
birdbath

birdbath \bird"bath`\ n. an ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
birdbath

also bird-bath, bird bath, 1862, from bird (n.1) + bath (n.).

Wiktionary
birdbath

n. 1 A shallow basin, sometimes ornamental, filled with water for wild birds to drink from or bathe in. 2 Random, inconsequential amounts of residual water on a roof membrane.

WordNet
birdbath

n. an ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in

Usage examples of "birdbath".

But there was a little in the birdbath at the center of the pool, a bitter broth of soot and leaves.

He was so startled that he momentarily lost his balance, grabbed the birdbath for support.

The birdbath was so precariously balanced on its pedestal that it began to tip.

Eliot dropped _The Investigator_, grabbed the birdbath with both hands to keep it from falling.

Some labels identified the contents: trellises, tools, a potting bench (some easy assembly required), a birdbath .

So I thought I'd stop by and see what Miz Nicholson wants to do about that birdbath.

They were folded neatly in the empty birdbath that was at the centre of the back lawn.

Patrolman Cooley looked at the birdbath and suddenly lost most of his tan.

Another time he had sent Mike to Memorial Park, where the Standpipe was, to look at the birdbath, and once they had gone to the courthouse together to look at a terrible machine that Chief Borton had found in the attic.

Sometimes, as when he had been trailing his fingers over the slightly pebbled surface of the stand in which the Memorial Park birdbath was set, or when he had squatted down to look more closely at the trolley tracks which grooved Mont Street in the Old Cape, he would be struck by a profound sense of time .

They didn't have money enough to fix the statue, so they put in a birdbath instead.

There was no need to adjust the field of focus, because the last time he had used the glasses he had been sitting on this same bench and looking at that same birdbath.

He sat still, field glasses trained on the birdbath, and the mist collected in fat drops on his yellow slicker.

It was joined by a flicker that was a frequent visitor to the Memorial Park birdbath.

It was still there, not bathing but only standing on the rim of the birdbath looking dumb.