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Sewage :: Sewage (n.) Sewerage, 2..

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..

Backwater :: Backwater (n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar..

Shore :: Shore (n.) A sewer.

Manhole :: Manhole (n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing..

Sentine :: Sentine (n.) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a 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..

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..

Expenitor :: Expenitor (n.) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers..

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..

Sewe :: Sewe (v. i.) To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.

Trap :: Trap (n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids..

Sewerage :: Sewerage (n.) The construction of a sewer or sewers.

Sewage :: Sewage (n.) The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewer.

Cloaca :: Cloaca (n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome..

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..

Flusher :: Flusher (n.) A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

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).

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..

Sewerage :: Sewerage (n.) The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers..

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