(rail transport, derogatory) A branch line train, using light equipment

(US, colloquial, derogatory) Of an inhabited place, small, isolated, backward. / (US, colloquial, derogatory, rail transport) Railroads with low traffic.

(US, rail transport, apocryphal) To fill a steam locomotive water tank manually from natural water supplies (a hypothetical process whose use has been discredited).

(US, colloquial, derogatory) Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards

A plant in the taxonomic genus Equisetum (horsetails) (Equisetum fluviatile, syn. Equisetum limosum).

Water from a spring that naturally contains dissolved minerals, often treated in any of several ways (filtering, aerating etc) and bottled; used either therapeutically or out of preference.

Alternative spelling of barley water

(Britain) A soft drink made by boiling pearl barley with water, and adding flavouring and sugar / (medicine, archaic) A decoction of barley used as a nutritive and demulcent.

plural of water fountain

A mechanical device designed to dispense small quantities of drinking water, usually in a public place such as a school or office.