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Definition of Ponds
1. pond [v] - See also: pond
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ponds
Literary usage of Ponds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"Annotation—Ownership of the bed of lake* or ponds. J. Great Lakes, ISO. II.
Small lakes and ponds: a. Law governing ownership, 151. b. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"In these ponds are " rests," made of projections from the sides or of dams, ...
Of these " baby ponds " we have ten, and, as we put ten thousand fry in each ..."
3. The Compleat Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, John Buchan (1901)
"Well, scholar, I will stop here, and tell you what by reading and conference I
have observed concerning fish-ponds. CHAPTER XX OF FISH-ponds, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Professor Miall had spoken of the limited area within which dew-ponds existed.
... Dew-ponds were numerous in Berkshire, where they were made in the way ..."
5. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"ON CERTAIN LAND-LOCKED ponds AS NATURAL METEOROLOGICAL REGISTERS. Prof. LS Burbank
read* a very interesting paper upon this subject before the Boston ..."
6. Bacteria in Relation to Country Life by Jacob Goodale Lipman (1908)
"The waters of lakes and ponds.—These are subject to the same phenomena of ...
The water of small lakes and ponds is more liable to be affected than that of ..."
7. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"The only thing which served to turn us from a direct course pursued by the compass,
was the innumerable ponds which bespeckled the plain, and which kept us ..."