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WATER BUTT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water butt mean?
• WATER BUTT (noun)
The noun WATER BUTT has 1 sense:
1. a butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater
Familiarity information: WATER BUTT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("water butt" is a kind of...):
butt (a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons))
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