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ˈwatershoot
[f. water n. + shoot n.]
1. [= Flem. waterscheute, -schote (Kilian, De Bo).] A sucker growing from the root, trunk, or main branch of a tree. Cf. water-bough.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 140/1 Stolones,..water⁓shootes: young shoots or sciences that growe out of the rootes or sides of the stocke, and proue not. 1601Holland Pliny xvii. xx. I. 525 Those superfluous water-shoots that spring out either from the root or the sides of the tree. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 84/2 The Water shoots, or suckers, are twigs that grow from the roots of trees. 1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 136 And if any strong wood or water-shoots push from the apricot or peach tree, except they serve to fill up a vacancy, they ought to be taken off. 1953D. M. Wright Dwarf Fruit Trees vi. 53 All that is necessary is the annual cutting out of..strongly growing ‘water shoots’. 1965Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 26 Sept. 15 Water shoots are strongly growing stems, usually sappy and developing rapidly.
2.
†a. Outflow of drainage water from land; water carried off by drainage. Obs.
b. A gutter or channel for the overflow of water.
a.1625G. Markham Inrichment Weald Kent 11 It is good also to draw a crosse or quarter Furrow, and opening the ends of all your land Furrowes into it, to leaue the other ends of your Furrowes stopped, that the water-shoot runne not all the length of the field. 1639Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. vii, Fens (bogs, marishes) are raising springs or quits, that run not (have no water-shoot). 1707–21Mortimer Husb. II. 207 The Drips of the Houses, the Water of the declining Walks, and the Water-shoots of other adjacent Lands, which may be reserved in Cisterns or Ponds so as to be of use.
b.1819Nicholson Dict. Archit. 802 Water Shoot, a wooden trough for discharging rain water from a building. 1825Beverley Lighting Act ii. 22 A gutter or water-shoot. 1834Beckford Italy II. 182 A transparent, gurgling rill, which is conducted through a rustic water-shoot. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. x, The bark from the wood-ricks [being] washed down the gutters, and even our water-shoot going brown.
†3. A waterfall, cascade. Obs.
1738[G. Smith] Cur. Relat. II. 273 Near the City Hoeicheu flows the River Singan, which has at least 360 Water-shoots falling into it between Rocks and Mountains.
4. An artificial cascade contrived for the amusement or exercise of ‘shooting the rapids’ in a boat or by swimming. Also water-chute: see water n. 29.
1900E. Glyn Visits Eliz. 26 In the evening Uncle Geoffrey took us to the Exhibition to go down in the Water Shoot. 1902Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 2/1 A water-shoot, a swimming mistress in attendance—yet, all last winter I had the whole thing practically to myself! |