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A cold water drinking fountain (for people) typically found in a public location; more generally, any fountain or water source (including for animals like birds, horses etc).
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To create a concavity or depression in.
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A shallow basin, sometimes ornamental, filled with water for wild birds to drink from or bathe in.
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Alternative form of black hole [(transitive, Internet) To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard (incoming traffic).]
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A submarine cave or sinkhole, a roughly circular, steep-walled depression that is typically anoxic below a certain depth.
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A depression in waterlogged soil
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Water accumulated in aquifers below the earth's surface that can be accessed via a bore or well.
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A chamber in a drainage system designed to catch sediment and debris.
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An underground pit where sewage is held.
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(UK, dialect) Alternative form of chimney [A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.]
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A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
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A tank where livestock can be immersed in disinfectant chemicals.
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(mining) Any mine reached by a drift (horizontal or inclined passage) from the surface.
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A hole in the floor of a cave, formed by dripping water.
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(agriculture) A channel or device for carrying and controlling water used in flood irrigation.
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(mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
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(geology) A deep sinkhole typical of karst regions and particularly Istria.
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A gully in Victoria, Australia; Any of several such gullies which were worked as goldfields during the Gold Rush.
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(Australia) A rock hole, capable of holding water, formed by weathering.
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A ravine or other depression.
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A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
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A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
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Alternative spelling of gully (Etymology 1) [A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.]
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A manhole providing access to a drain.
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(mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
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A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
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Alternative form of inleak [A hole where water leaks in.]
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(India) A pond, marsh, lake or similar wetland area, usually with significant vegetation providing shelter and/or food to a variety of aquatic and semi-aquatic animal species.
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Water lying near the surface, easily drawn upon by shallow wells.
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An opening (typically in a cage) through which a test animal may lick water or other drink
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(rare) A hole dug in the ground for dancing around on May Day, a feminist alternative to the supposedly phallic maypole.
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(Australia) A small hole or concavity in the landscape where rainwater gathers.
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A hole full of mud, especially one in a road
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Any machine using buckets to raise water to an aqueduct.
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A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
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A shallow depression or pothole that collects rainwater or snow melt
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(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) The hole at the bottom of a bath, sink or tub, which can be blocked using a plug; a drain (US)
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Alternative form of rockhole [(Australia) A natural watering hole in the rock; a gnamma.]
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(Australia) A natural watering hole in the rock; a gnamma.
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(geology) A freshwater body that collects in a depression formed along a fault.
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Alternative form of salt flat [A dry lake or playa whose level bed contains abundant salt.]
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(Britain, Northern England) A steep-sided, often conical, depression caused by slumping of ground into a cavity beneath. Shakeholes may or may not contain a cave entrance and/or a stream sink.
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Alternative form of chott [(geology) A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.]
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An underground water source that runs constantly. A common source of fresh drinking water in Ukrainian villages.
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(mining) To be distributed as shoads.
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Alternative spelling of shoad [(mining) To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.]
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Alternative form of showerhead. [A perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather, sometimes in adjustable patterns.]
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(plural "Siameses") A connection of tubes or hoses shaped like a letter Y.
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A depression in a stereotype plate.
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A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
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A lake, fed by alkaline springs, that has no outlet
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A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
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A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
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(chiefly US) A hole dug in the ground, beneath the basement of a house, in which rainwater etc collects.
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A session of being immersed in a tank.
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Alternative form of tap water [Water that has come from a tap.]
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A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
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(military) A battery nearly on a level with the water.
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An open-ended barrel used to contain rainwater; a rain barrel
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(astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
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Any of several small paunches in a camel's body, used for storing water.
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Alternative spelling of waterhole [A depression in which water collects, especially one where wild animals come to drink.]
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An area of mineral deposits left behind after a wet object dries in the air.
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A large tank of water, in an elevated position, acting as a local reservoir; water is pumped into the tank and fed by gravity to the consumers.
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A pit or cavity made by a torrent of water.
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Alternative spelling of waterhole [A depression in which water collects, especially one where wild animals come to drink.]
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A depression in which water collects, especially one where wild animals come to drink.
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A depression in which water collects and where animals come to drink.
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A place where water may be obtained, e.g. for a ship or for cattle.
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A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
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Water taken from a well, i.e. a hole in the ground which acts as a source of water.
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