POND
NOUNS
► BULL-HOLE a small pond or water-hole → 1887 US
► CARR a pond or pool; a bog or fen; wet boggy ground → c1330 Eng. dial
► CATHOLE a deep place in a river, creek, pond, etc. → 1842 Amer. dial.
► DELF a pond → 1841 Eng. dial.
► DIKE a pool of water, a puddle; a pond → 1788 Eng. dial.
► DUMP a deep hole in the bed of a river or pond → 1788 Eng. dial.
► ETCH a small pond → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GARR mud; the oozy vegetable substance in the bed of a river or pond → 1825 Sc.
► GURGES a pond, a pool → 1875 Eng. dial.
► HASSOCK a large pond → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LACHE a pond; a pool → 1868 Eng. dial.
► LAGOONA ► LAGUNA a pool or pond of salt or fresh water, often alongside a larger body of water → 1838 Amer. dial.
► LAKE 1. a pond, a pool → a1000 obs.
2. a pond formed by damming up a stream → 1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LOON SHIT the mud or muck on the bottom of a pond → 1974 Brit. sl.
► MERE a small lake or sheet of standing water; a pond → 1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PAN a pond → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PANTS the ponds or sloppy places left by unusually high tides on the foreshore or between the sea embankments → 1891 Eng, dial.
► PONDLET a small pond → 1839
► RIFE a salt-water pond → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TANK a piece of deep water, natural or artificial; a pond or pool → 1678 Eng. & Amer. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► PONDCASTER a person who digs ponds → 1602 obs.
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