Definition of drain

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Drain (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

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Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..
Trap :: Trap (v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5..
Cunette :: Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette..
Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it..
Carouse :: Carouse (v. t.) To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.
Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
Tile :: Tile (n.) A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works..
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..
Suilline :: Suillage (n.) A drain or collection of filth.
Drein :: Drein (v. i.) To drain.
Draine :: Draine (n.) The missel thrush.
Plumb :: Plumb (v. t.) To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe..
Mole :: Mole (n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains..
Drain :: Drain (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of..
Underdrain :: Underdrain (n.) An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
Sewer :: Sewer (n.) A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities..
Lade :: Lade (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
Seal :: Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap..
Water Drainage :: Water drainage () The draining off of water.
Delph :: Delph (n.) The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.
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