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ˈwatering-place
[watering vbl. n.]
1. A place in a river or lake where animals are brought to obtain water: also a pool or trough prepared for the use of cattle and horses.
c1440Promp. Parv. 518/2 Watrynge place, where beestys byn wateryd..adaquarium. 1478Botoner Itin. (1778) 168 Ultra le Weere et le wateryng place. 1558Nottingham Rec. IV. 119 For maykyng of wattryng places in the Cowpasture. 1769Aclome Inclos. Act 6 Such ground as the said Commissioners may set out for any common watering place or places. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxix, The by-path..brought him..to the brink of the Clyde, at a spot marked with the feet of horses, who were conducted to it as a watering-place. 1819Rees' Cycl. VI. R 4, s.v. Canal, Watering places for cattle are generally directed to be made, especially where the fields have been deprived of their old ones by the cutting of their canal. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xx, One of the best watering-places..on the run.
2. a. A place where a ship's company goes to fill the ship's casks with fresh water.
1613J. Saris Voy. Japan (Hakl. Soc.) 3 The 16th we anchored at the watering place called Tinga Jaua, being 14 leagues from Bantam. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xii. (1840) 209 We sent the..boats..to the watering-place. 1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney), Watering-Place, a situation where boats can load with fresh water for the use of ships. 1919Eng. Hist. Rev. July 283 St. Helena..the chief remaining watering-place on the direct route between the Comoros and home waters.
b. gen. A place where a supply of water can be obtained.
1621in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) 288 Wee had all sortes of refreshments untill certayne Portingalls..forbid and defended the watering-place. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. vii. (1858) 287 It [the Jordan] is still the ‘Sheriat-el-Khebir’ the ‘great watering-place’ of the Bedouin tribes. 1908Parish Councils 15 At Gaydon (Warwickshire) the parish council was given a good supply of water... The parish council of Humshaugh..has bought the freehold of a small piece of land,..so as to secure for ever a public watering place.
3. a. A resort of fashionable or holiday visitants, either for drinking or bathing in the waters of a mineral spring, or for sea-bathing.
1757Foote Author i. Wks. 1799 I. 137 Tunbridge, Bristol, and the other watering places. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xiv. §33 A Watering Place does not want the help of the sea to make it execrable; the inland Spa is not a jot behind the Fishing-town in the article of tortures. 1822W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 80, I shall..go to a watering-place on the continent. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 652 Teignmouth, now a gay watering place consisting of twelve hundred houses. 1891Hardy Tess lvi, In a quarter of an hour the news..spread through every street and villa of the popular watering-place. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 461 The treatment for gout—including in one case a visit to Aix-les-Bains and other European ‘watering places’.
b. attrib.
1817Jane Austen Sanditon vi, in Minor Works (1954) 389 The very quietest part of a Watering-place Day. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 93 Such watering-place manners as I saw at Rockaway are considered and called vulgar on the spot. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xlviii, The Honourable Sackville Scatterbrain,..fortunately for himself, had knocked up a watering-place match. 1854Surtees Handley Cr. ii. (1901) I. 15 A watering-place public, ever ready for excitement, soon divided the place into Swizzleites and Melloites. 1890Gunter Miss Nobody viii. (1891) 88 The long round of watering-place dissipations. |