Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device to seal the discharge-duct into a sewer-pipe in order to prevent the flow of gas or sewer-air into the house-drain: usually a water-seal, in a U-shaped piece of pipe of metal or glazed earthenware.
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Examples
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Then he turned down the first side street, doubled round to the right, turned to the left down a kind of black sewer-trap and let himself into a wine-shop, where he sat down, breathing short.
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Three hundred Guards at once volunteered their services, stalked the poor workman, and blew him to pieces the next time he popped his head out of a sewer-trap.
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887
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I have only just found out that a sewer-trap quite close to his shop gives out a most offensive _affluvia_, especially in this hot weather.
The Town Traveller George Gissing 1880
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The devil's in her to-night! "grinned old Marise, the innkeeper, from her place behind the bar, where the lid of the sewer-trap opened.
Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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The devil's in her to-night! "grinned old Marise, the innkeeper, from her place behind the bar, where the lid of the sewer-trap opened.
Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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