POOL

Definitions

1. 1. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. Wyclif. Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson.
2. 2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell." Shak.