culvert

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One neighbor, 48-year-old Dru Faust, said the culvert has been there since she was young.

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

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  • The land behind the Kennebaugh property sloped gradually down toward a thickly wooded culvert, at whose bottom an ancient and badly weathered open concrete channel carried a viscous trickle of turbid water. —  AHMM,September2008
  • A federal law enforcement source said the pilot parked the plane under what appeared to be a bridge or culvert, apparently in an attempt to hide it. —  Bostonmaggie
  • Dirt falling through the vertical drain had clogged the culvert, and water, instead of going down the culvert, had pushed back up the vertical drain and out into soil. —  post-gazette.com - News
  • He said a study of the culvert area that county government and the South Florida Water Management District are jointly funding, and the county's own Density Reduction / Groundwater Resource study, will do much to determine what's done.
  • The Conservancy did solicit members - and donations - from residents of The Brooks and Estero when the culvert issue was debated, and months earlier when a drainage ditch permit was granted on the Aronoff property.
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. apparently an accommodation, in imitation of covert, a covered place, of French coulouëre, a channel, gutter, also a colander, from couler, run, drain: see cullis, colander.
  2. Middle English, also culvart, culvard, from Old French culvert, cuilvert, cuivert, cuvert, couvert, colvert, also collibert, colibert (Middle Latin collibertus, also, after F., culverta), low, servile, as noun a serf, vassal: see collibert.
 

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