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drinking fountain

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drinking fountain
A fixture consisting of a shallow basin, together with a water jet, designed to provide potable water for human consumption.


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I and the artilleryman, seated on the step of the drinking fountain, made a very passable meal upon what we had brought with us.
Hardly ever did he pass through his barn without paying homage to his own progressiveness and oozing approval of the mechanical milker, driven by his own electrical dynamo, the James Way stanchions with electric lights above, the individual drinking fountains at the head of each cow, the cork-brick floors, the scrupulously white-washed walls, and the absence of odor, with the one exception of sweet, fermented silage.
 
 
 
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