What is "watering cans"

Usage examples of "watering cans".

And as it was abandoned, the garden and its buildings took on some of the attractions of a ruin: the tools in the earth-smelling potting shed were dusty and remote, and spiders spun webs across the openings of watering cans, giving them the fabulous antiquity of casques in a buried hoard.

Here and there old women with watering cans and grandchildren, sun on black Swedish granite, obelisks, truncated columns -- symbolic or real war damage -- a tarnished green angel behind a yew tree or something that looked like a yew tree.

He saw murky trees and bushes, a few waist-high upright pipes with taps, watering cans beside them.

None of the queer horde turned a head, although the sounds of their pursuers, as they stumbled amongst corrugated plot dividers and galvanized watering cans, rang loudly across the silent allotments.

Rune nodded unhappily, as they walked back to the stable to put the watering cans away under the shelves by the stable door.

When I wandered out into the courtyard he was watering them, using one of those long-spouted tin watering cans.

Jason shrugged and headed for a nearby water pump to thrust his arms into the filled tub beneath it, dozens of watering cans stacked all around it.

At length he came to a little stone basin where the gardener had formerly filled his watering cans and where he himself had kept a few tiny tadpoles.