water butt

a barrel for collecting rainwater, esp from a drainpipe

Words nearby water butt

When they went out of doors Lass was standing deserted, with her nose over the water-butt.

The Pioneers |Katharine Susannah Prichard
There was only that heap and the wall between him and the water-butt!

A Rough Shaking |George MacDonald
Now there is a water-butt at the junction of the annexe and the main building.

A Floating Home |Cyril Ionides
In one, an unknown man was found head down in a water-butt outside a country bungalow.

Scotland Yard |George Dilnot

But he could not forget the water-butt—proximate mother of the child.

A Rough Shaking |George MacDonald