watering place

n.1. A place where animals find water to drink.2. A health resort with mineral springs; a spa.3. Informal A watering hole.

watering place

n 1. (Human Geography) a place where drinking water for men or animals may be obtained 2. (Human Geography) Brit a spa 3. (Human Geography) Brit a seaside resort

wa′tering place`

n. 1. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort. 2. a health resort near mineral springs, a lake, or the sea, featuring therapeutic baths, water cures, or the like; spa. 3. a spring or water hole containing drinking water. 4. watering hole (def. 2). [1400–50]

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Noun

watering place - a health resort near a spring or at the seasidespa, watering holepump room - a pump house at a spa where medicinal waters are pumped and where patrons gatherplayground, resort area, vacation spot - an area where many people go for recreation

watering place

1. a place where drinking water for men or animals may be obtained 2. Brit a spa 3. Brit a seaside resort

Watering Place

an area with facilities for watering animals. Watering places are constructed in pastures and along cattle-driving routes. A level site is chosen. The area is planned with a grade of 0.05 from the water source (a well, pond, river, lake, reservoir, or canal) so that the water will not go stale, and the area is strengthened by a gravel and sand fill or paved with stone. Convenient approaches at least 3 m wide are made for animals. Watering places are equipped with water-raising engines if the water does not enter the area by gravity, a reservoir for a water supply with a capacity of at least one day’s needs, and troughs for drinking. Mobile watering places are also used, consisting of a cistern on a trailer and an automatic drinking bowl. The distance between watering places in pastures varies with the pastures’ feeding capacity, pasturage systems, type of animal, and relief of the locality, and it must not exceed the allowable distance for a drive from one watering place to another (2-8 km). Along cattle-driving routes, this distance must not exceed the animals’ speed of movement (for example, not more than 15 km per 24 hours for sheep).

REFERENCES

Ovodov, V. S. Sel’skokhoziaistvennoe vodosnabzhenie i obvodnenie, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1960.
Babenko, I.I . Vodosnabzhenie zhivotnovodcheskikhferm. Moscow, 1964.

V. V. DATSYKOV

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noun a health resort near a spring or at the seaside

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