water-butts

❦The snow fell for days, was blown into drifts, accumulated on the roofs of sheds, on windowsills and frozen panes, changed the shape of water-butts and mounting-blocks.

William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter 2011

Whooping and laughing, they made last splashy toilets at the water-butts, dragged out their luggage, and descended to the dock-house.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Outside my room an open balcony with many similiar rooms ran round a forlorn aggregate of dilapidated shingle roofs and water-butts.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

I will pump out the water, and YOU shall carry it to the entrance-steps and fill the water-butts.

Through Russia 2003

Whereafter, with a considerable display of strength, he set about his portion of the task, whilst I myself took pail in hand and advanced towards the steps to find that the water-butts were so rotten that, instead of retaining the water, they let it leak out into the courtyard.

Through Russia 2003

Lastly, there were posted, sentinel-like on the entrance-steps, two water-butts as a precaution against fire.

Through Russia 2003

Explanations followed, and soon, by the aid of two water-butts, the small boys found themselves sitting side by side on the top of the wall, holding a long and intimate conversation.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

The lower yards dipped at every roll; and so great was the strain, that it drew the strong iron ring-bolts by which the guns were secured, and the lashings which fastened the large water-butts broke loose.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

"At the spring on the little island the seamen filled their water-butts; this kept them several days, mixing labor with skylarking, during which time one of them picked up something, a pouch marked with a name."

Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

He never found out the reason, unless it were intended that he should take the air by sitting on it and dangling his legs over the foulest of water-butts.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various