water lot
North American (chiefly Canadian in later use)
noun
A lot of ground, typically situated along a shoreline, which is covered by water but which can be reclaimed as usable land or which is otherwise productive or useful.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Independent Reflector.
- carbonyl
- carbonylation
- carbonyl chloride
- carbon–14 date
- carbon–14 dating
- car boot
- car-booter
- car boot sale
- carborane
- carborundum
- carbostyril
- car-bound
- carbowax
- carboxy
- carboxydismutase
- carboxyhaemoglobin
- carboxykinase
- carboxyl
- carboxylase
- carboxylate
- carboxylation
- carboxylic acid
- carboxyl-terminal
- carboxymethylated
- carboxymethylation