stock pond

noun

An artificial pond used for watering livestock.

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Meanings

nounstock pond (plural stock ponds)

plural stock ponds

  1. An artificial pond used for watering livestock.

    That's how you find the life out here, the coyote on a far ridge, the pronghorn moving toward the stock pond, the rattler, the small burrowing owl. The life that illuminates and gives meaning to spare ground.

    1989 February 5, Kay Whitlock, “Letter from Colorado”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 11
  2. A pond that is stocked with fish for food or recreation.
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