水揚げ

Meanings

1. Noun, Suru verb

   landing; unloading (e.g. a ship)

2. Noun

   catch (of fish); takings
3. sales (of a shop)

4. Noun, Suru verb

   defloration (e.g. of a geisha)
5. preservation (of cut flowers, in ikebana)

• 植物しょくぶつにお水みずあげて。

  Water the plants.

• 大量たいりょうのイカの水揚みずあげは地震じしんの前兆現象ぜんちょうげんしょうだ。

  Large catches of squid are a sign of a coming earthquake.

• 「今日きょう、花はなに水みずあげた？」「自分じぶんの部屋へやのには」

  "Did you water the flowers today?" "Only in my room."