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Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.

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..

Water Drain :: Water drain () A drain or channel for draining off water.

Catchdrain :: Catchdrain (n.) A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water..

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

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..

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

Ditch :: Ditch (v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land..

Sink :: Sink (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

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..

Mould :: Mould (n.) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand..

Well-draining :: Well-draining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Welldrai.

Exhaust :: Exhaust (a.) Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

Draine :: Draine (n.) The missel thrush.

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

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

Drainage :: Drainage (n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc..

Treacle :: Treacle (n.) Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses..

Sullage :: Sullage (n.) Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.

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