POOL (water)
ADJECTIVES
► LACUSCULAR pert. to a small pool; frequenting small pools → 1878
► LAKISH abounding in lakes or pools; inhabiting a lake → 1590 obs.
NOUNS
► CARR a pond or pool; a bog or fen; wet boggy ground → c1330 Eng. dial
► HAFT an island in a pool → 1686 Eng. dial.
► 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 small, stagnant pool, esp. one formed at ebb-tide on the shore → 1758 Sc.
3. a pond formed by damming up a stream → 1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LAY a lake, a pool → a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LAYS pools of sea water left along the beach at the ebb of the tide → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MERE-POOL a pool of water → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NATATORY a swimming-bath, a pool → c1400 obs.
► PUSH a puddle or pool of water, esp. a large one left by a heavy downpour of rain → 1886 Eng. dial.
► SINK a well or pool of water → 1834
► SIPE a small spring or pool of water → 1825 chiefly Sc.
► SUMP a small body of water, a puddle, a dirty pool → c1425 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TANK a piece of deep water, natural or artificial; a pond or pool → 1678 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► VADDLE a wading place; a shallow pool at the head of a bay or creek → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
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