watershoot

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English

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Etymology

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From water +‎ shoot.

Noun

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watershoot (plural watershoots)

  1. (obsolete) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
  2. (obsolete, architecture) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
  3. (obsolete) A trough for discharging water.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for watershoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)