rock water

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rock water (countable and uncountable, plural rock waters)

  1. Spring water as issued from beneath rocks, seen as being especially pure, clean or healthy.
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXCV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson;  , →OCLC:
      And here, while I am thus worthily waging war with beetles, drones, wasps, and hornets, and am all on fire with the rage of slighted love, thou art regaling thyself with phlegm and rock-water, and art going on with thy reformation scheme, and thy exultations in my misfortunes!
    • 1860, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Sir Rohan's Ghost:
      ‘It is as sparkling and transparent as rockwater,’ said Mr. Redruth.