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English
Noun
water butt (plural water butts)
- An open-ended barrel used to contain rainwater; a rain barrel
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, , published 1850, →OCLC:It would have been better, as it turned out, to have led gently up to this announcement, for Mrs. Micawber, being in a delicate state of health, was overcome by it, and was taken so unwell, that Mr. Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with.
1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in The Rainbow, New York: The Modern Library, page 72:The house was silent save for the wind outside, and the noisy trickling and splattering of water in the water-butts.
1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:Trumpkin went to a flat stone about the size of the top of a water-butt, and stamped on it with his foot.
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Translations
barrel for holding rainwater