watering pot

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watering pot (plural watering pots)

  1. Synonym of watering can
    • 1856, Richard Cumberland, Memoirs of Richard Cumberland:
      ...but there must be luxury in the glare of lustres to a man who has drudged at his desk by the light of a tallow candle, and how much handsomer must a floor appear to him when splendidly bechalked by a capital designer, than when besprinkled with a watering pot by a slipshod apprenticel

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