Definition of sewer

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Sewer (n.) A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities..

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Catch-basin :: Catch-basin (n.) A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer..
Sewer :: Sewer (n.) Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests..
Shore :: Shore (n.) A sewer.
Sentine :: Sentine (n.) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
Cloaca :: Cloaca (n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome..
Sewer :: Sewer (n.) A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana).
Sewerage :: Sewerage (n.) The construction of a sewer or sewers.
Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air..
Sewerage :: Sewerage (n.) The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers..
Flusher :: Flusher (n.) A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
Sewe :: Sewe (v. i.) To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.
Wash :: Wash (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc..
Expenitor :: Expenitor (n.) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers..
Trap :: Trap (v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5..
Drain :: Drain (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
Sewage :: Sewage (n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewer.
Sewerage :: Sewerage (n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers..
Sewer :: Sewer (n.) One who sews, or stitches..
Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like..
Flush :: Flush (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer..
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