A small body of still or standing water, esp. one of natural formation. Also: †a fishpond (obsolete) (cf. fish-pool, n.).

A pit, hole, well, or pool.

A pond, a pool. Obsolete exc. U.S.

A pool; sometimes, a stagnant pool overgrown with reeds, etc.; a swamp.

A pole or stake, a wooden bar or beam. Also in various specific uses (see quots.).

A pond or pool. Obsolete exc. dialect.

A pond or pool; a bog or fen; now, usually, wet boggy ground; a meadow recovered by draining from the bog.

A stank, pool (of water).

A pond or pool. Also a ditch or dyke of slowly-moving water, a moat. Now Scottish and dialect.

A natural pool or small lake; a mere, a tarn; a pool in a river or stream (now Australian). Also (chiefly North American): a lake or reservoir of any…

A pool, a marshy place. Obsolete exc. local.

A pond, esp. a fish-pond; also, a weir or dam. = stank, n.1

gen. A shovel or shovel-shaped implement, esp. a fire shovel. Now historical and rare.

A pond or pool.

A wet place, pool, marsh, mere.

A pool, esp. one into which a cataract falls.

Hunting. A spring or pool of water. Obsolete.

A shallow pool, salt marsh.

A still pool. Obsolete.

U.S. and Canadian. A marshy or reedy pool, pond, small lake, backwater, or inlet.

A shallow pool.

A hollow or depression in which water collects; a pond or pool. Also: a hole dug in order to collect water, esp. drinking water; = waterhole, n. 1.

In South Africa: A shallow pool of water; a piece of low-lying ground covered with water during the rainy season.

A pool or lagoon (in India) often of vast extent, left after an inundation.

North American./sluː/. = slew, n.1 Also, a side channel of a river, or a natural channel that is only sporadically filled with water.

A small spring or pool of water.