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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sewer or drain crossing under a road or embankment.
  2. n. The part of a road or embankment that passes over such a sewer or drain.
  3. n. The channel or conduit for such a sewer or drain.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An arched or flat-covered drain of brickwork or masonry carried under a road, railroad, canal, etc., for the passage of water.
  2. False; villainous.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway

Etymologies

  1. Obscure, possibly dialect or related to the name of the long-forgotten inventor, or possibly from French couvert ("covered"), although couvert cannot be used in the same way, and the introduction of an l to make the English word is difficult to explain. (Wiktionary)
  2. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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