ppl. a. = WATER-SOAKED.
1783. Jrnl. Ho. Comm., XLVII. 372/2. Oak … frequently becomes so Water-soaken, as scarce ever to dry again.
1791. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 172. I laid them in a damp place upon a water soaken brick.
1803. Malthus, Popul., I. iii. (1806), 34. A piece of water-soaken wood.
c. 1825. Houlston Tracts, II. No. 47. 2. ‘Surely,’ said the farmers, as they looked over their … water-soaken grounds, ‘we shall have a fine August.’
