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Water crowfoot: Definition and part of speech

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Water crowfoot

  1. An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Water deer: Definition and part of speech

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Water deer

  1. The water chevrotain.
  2. A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Water course: Definition and part of speech

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Water course

  1. A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry.
  2. A stream of water; a river or brook.
  3. A natural channel for water; also, a canal for the conveyance of water, especially in draining lands.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Water crake: Definition and part of speech

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Water crake

  1. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
  2. The dipper.
  3. The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Water crane: Definition and part of speech

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Water crane

  1. A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.