watershoot

plural watershoots

1. biologyA sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree or other plant.

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   Looking up, Pinckney was fascinated by the tangle above, the soaring air shoots and water shoots, the sagging lianas, cable-thick and tufted with orchids, orchids that imitated birds and butterflies, dun-coloured orchids, variegated orchids, orchids coloured like parrots, orchids festooned like the lyre bird.

   1916, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Mound of Darkness

2. architectureSomething which serves to guard from falling water

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   The parapet of one is plain and solid, with a row of holes under it to let off the water, a general fashion in Ireland, sometimes with watershoots and sometimes not.

   1860, John Henry Parker, “Observations on the Ancient Domestic Architecture of Ireland”, in Archaeologia

   Synonyms: drip, dripstone, hoodmold, headmold, throating

3. A trough for discharging water.

   :Template:..}a deal of rain having fallen, and all the troughs in the yard being flooded, and the bark from the wood-ricks washed down the gutters, and even our water-shoot going brown

   1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC

4. misspellingMisspelling of water chute (“water slide”)