water butt

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   a butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater

   Broaderbutt

Questions about water butt

What does water butt mean?

water butt means "a butt set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater".

Is water butt a common word?

water butt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.