No man irrigates with a hoe; that's a woman's tool.
"Dorian"
Nephi Anderson
To keep it from filling above a certain level we have four great pumping stations that force the oversupply back into the reservoirs far north from which the red men draw the water which irrigates their farm lands."
"The Gods of Mars"
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Red laughed at the youngster's discomfiture: "That little squib of yourn shore touched her off-I reckon we irrigates on yu this time, don't we?"
"Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up Bar-20"
Clarence Edward Mulford