watershoot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A trough for discharging water.
noun
Misspelling of water chute (“water slide”)
Example Sentences
- "Looking up, Pinckney was fascinated by the tangle above, the soaring air shoots and water shoots, the sagging lianas, cable-thick and tufted with orchids, orchids that imitated birds and butterflies, dun-coloured orchids, variegated orchids, orchids coloured like parrots, orchids festooned like the lyre bird."
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- "The parapet of one is plain and solid, with a row of holes under it to let off the water, a general fashion in Ireland, sometimes with watershoots and sometimes not."
- ":Template:..}a deal of rain having fallen, and all the troughs in the yard being flooded, and the bark from the wood-ricks washed down the gutters, and even our water-shoot going brown"