The Collaborative International Dictionary
Watering \Wa"ter*ing\, a. & n. from Water, v. Watering call (Mil.), a sound of trumpet or bugle summoning cavalry soldiers to assemble for the purpose of watering their horses. Watering cart, a sprinkling cart. See Water. Watering place.
A place where water may be obtained, as for a ship, for cattle, etc.
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A place where there are springs of medicinal water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating, etc. Watering pot.
A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, -- used for watering flowers, paths, etc.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Aspergillum, or Brechites. The valves are small, and consolidated with the capacious calcareous tube which incases the entire animal. The tube is closed at the anterior end by a convex disk perforated by numerous pores, or tubules, and resembling the rose of a watering pot.
Watering trough, a trough from which cattle, horses, and other animals drink.
Wiktionary
n. (synonym of watering can English)
WordNet
n. a container with a handle and a spout with a perforated nozzle; used to sprinkle water over plants [syn: watering can]
Usage examples of "watering pot".
Kenny popped up on hands and knees beside me, peering out from under the band of his knitted cap like a toad beneath a watering pot.
She'd probably made him feel guilty, acting like such a watering pot.
Good Lord, was he really about to turn into a veritable watering pot himself?