A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake, a small lake, A still body of water smaller than a lake, intransitive verb_ To form ponds or large puddles, To cause to form ponds or large puddles, transitive verb_ To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming, obsolete To ponder, verb_ To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam, obsolete To ponder