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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Liquid and solid waste carried off in sewers or drains.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The matter which passes through sewers; excreted and waste matter, solid and liquid, carried off in sewers and drains. Also sewerage.
  2. n. Same as sewerage, 1.
  3. n. Synonyms See sewerage.
  4. To fertilize by the application of sewage.
  5. To furnish with sewers; drain with sewers; sewer.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
  2. n. sewerage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers.
  2. n. Sewerage, 2.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. waste matter carried away in sewers or drains

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps sew, sewer (from Middle English, short for Anglo-Norman sewere; see sewer1) + -age.

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