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WATERER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does waterer mean?
• WATERER (noun)
The noun WATERER has 2 senses:
1. someone who waters plants or crops
2. an assistant who supplies drinking water
Familiarity information: WATERER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who waters plants or crops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("waterer" is a kind of...):
farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand (a hired hand on a farm)
Derivation:
water (supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams)
water (provide with water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An assistant who supplies drinking water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
water boy; waterer
Hypernyms ("waterer" is a kind of...):
assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)
Derivation:
water (provide with water)
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