Sentence:  He carried the wood , carried the <WSD>water</WSD> , did the cooking , cleaning and mending , and occasionally got a kick in the butt for his pains . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent