A pool of water (large or small).
13[?]. St. Cristofore, 839, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 464. Me hase thoghte þis fyre als cole Als I had lyggene in a water polle.
1535. Coverdale, 1 Macc. ix. 33. Ionathas and Symon his brother … pitched their tentes by the water pole of Asphar.
1598. R. Bernard, trans. Terence, Adelph., IV. ii. (1607), 304. At the very waterpoole [apud ipsum lacum] there is a hand-mill.
1849. Carlyle, New Lett. (1904), II. 72. Eternal Silence of the mountains and their melancholy water-pools.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, I. iv. 115. Her little hand trembled as it touched Angus Hamleigh’s, when he led her across a craggy bit of path, or over a tiny water-pool.
1913. Gertrude L. Bell, in Blackw. Mag., Nov., 592/1. We stopped to ask the latest news of tribes and water-pools.
