EGAVE

sewer

About 1.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
    There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.
  2. verb To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
  3. noun An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.
  4. noun One who sews.
  5. noun A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
    the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

Similar words

sewerage cloaca drain drainpipe gutter manhole drainage cesspool sewage plumbing

Often followed by

system and systems pipe lines or is in pipes

Word family

sewers

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