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Drain :: Drain (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

Lake :: Lake (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area..

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..

Welldrain :: Welldrain (v. t.) To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery..

Drain :: Drain (v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie..

Draining :: Draining (v. t.) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land..

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it..

Mole :: Mole (n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains..

Ditch :: Ditch (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse..

Drain :: Drain (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of..

Catchwater :: Catchwater (n.) A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

Grindlet :: Grindlet (n.) A small drain.

Pane :: Pane (n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain..

Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

Trap :: Trap (v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5..

Sipy :: Sipy (a.) Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.

Drainage :: Drainage (n.) The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

Insanitary :: Insanitary (a.) Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage..

Underditch :: Underditch (v. t.) To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm..

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