| 单词 | water butt |
| 例句 | Killconey the ferret stood alongside his Chief with a drum that he had made from an old water butt. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I crept under the kitchen window and then down the garden in the far shrubbery till I got to a water butt. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Mr Johnstone suggests using a water butt to collect any rain water, as well as using "grey water" from baths and cooking pots. Where are hosepipe bans in place and how can I save water? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Or they can use water that is not sourced from taps such as grey water, rainwater from a water butt or a private borehole. UK heatwave: Hosepipe ban in Cornwall first in 26 years 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Dr Gush, from Surrey, said it was an "excellent time" to install a water butt and explained plants preferred rain water because of the acidity levels. How can you save water during a hosepipe ban? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z New housing developments will be told to follow a design guide including water butts to catch water from drainpipes, permeable paving for rainwater and gardens filled with vegetation to soak up rain. COP26: Flooding lessons from Hull, a city below sea level 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Thames Water has a scheme to help customers buy water butts. England's future water supplies at 'serious risk' 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z It involves rainwater harvesting using water butts in flood areas. How can we stop our village flooding again? 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr Flood staggered into his neighbour's garden and tried to douse the flames on his clothing from a water butt. Husband died setting fire to home 2010-03-20T13:37:00Z Mr Johnstone, who started gardening in lockdown to help with his mental health, suggested using a water butt to collect rain water - best kept in the shade and with a lid on. How can you save water during a hosepipe ban? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z A curse spluttered out between his teeth as, dropping the lantern into a water butt that stood at hand, he started to run along the path that led away from the house. The Princess Galva A Romance He saw that it was late afternoon, for the shadows of the water butts ran well to the east. Ewing\\'s Lady Trask filled the basin at the water butt and washed his sticky face. Isle o' Dreams After a few minutes the big son came along with two brimming buckets of cold well water and poured it into the stone water butt, which had been almost empty. Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries Taking it out, she read:— 'If you be Miss Gwen, the key is under the water butt; if you be any other body, let it be. The Carved Cupboard Those who live in a malarious district should carefully exclude these from their houses, and by draining swamps and covering water butts prevent their breeding, which is always in stagnant water. Papers on Health They showed him the view from his windows, a far stretch of dull-red roofs, with murky water butts stuck aloft like giant cockades against the gray sky. Ewing\\'s Lady I could have emptied a water butt, lain down and gone to sleep, or melted ice with a touch of the finger. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm He had slipped into one of the store rooms, now left unlocked, to tap a water butt unseen, for all hands were on short water rations. Ralph Granger's Fortunes He appropriated a loaf and some bunches of grapes, took a long drink from a pail placed under the tap of a water butt, and made his way back to his corner. The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century He looked for Jane in the hothouse and the cucumber frames, and under the rhubarb, and on the scullery roof, and in the water butt. The Tree of Heaven It's an inside room, isn't it, over the kitchen, and just next to the water butt where the maids come to draw water for the scrubbing at 5 A.M.? Roast Beef, Medium The water butts stood amidships, not far from the open door of the galley. Keziah Coffin |
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