stock pond

English

Noun

stock pond (plural stock ponds)

1. An artificial pond used for watering livestock.
   • 1989 February 5, Kay Whitlock, “Letter from Colorado”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 11:

     That's how you find the life out here, the coyote on a far ridge, the pronghorn moving toward the stock pond, the rattler, the small burrowing owl. The life that illuminates and gives meaning to spare ground.

2. A pond that is stocked with fish for food or recreation.