Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reservoir placed at the point of discharge of a pipe into a sewer, to retain matter which would not pass readily through the sewer. Such basins are arranged so that they can be emptied as often as is necessary.
- noun A reservoir, especially for catching and retaining surface-drainage over large areas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cistern orvault at the point where astreet gutter discharges into asewer , to catchbulky matter that would not pass readily through the sewer.
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Examples
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They came to a place where a small waterfall spilled down into a deep rocky catch-basin, which in turn overflowed to make the stream where he had seen the undine the day before.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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After a short while, the sound of the little brook was joined by the louder sound of falling water, and through a gap in the trees ahead, Kellen could see what must be their destination for the night: a wide crack in the canyon wall where a tiny waterfall spilled down from above to fill a cuplike catch-basin before spilling away into the narrow stream.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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Over 100 years ago, Adolph Sutro, the 24th mayor of San Francisco, recognized the power of San Francisco's waves, building a wave catch-basin that he hoped to one day turn into a wave-powered "overtopping" system near Cliff House.
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Mr. Ramos, who along with his brother Carlos now works as a dealer and art consultant, says that his mission was to save disfavored art from indifference, neglect or malicious destruction, and that his salvage collection is a catch-basin for a range of paintings -- from presidential portraits to genre scenes by Oscar García Rivera (called the "Norman Rockwell" of Cuba by Mr. Ramos), who was sent to a work camp in the 1960s.
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They came to a place where a small waterfall spilled down into a deep rocky catch-basin, which in turn overflowed to make the stream where he had seen the undine the day before.
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After a short while, the sound of the little brook was joined by the louder sound of falling water, and through a gap in the trees ahead, Kellen could see what must be their destination for the night: a wide crack in the canyon wall where a tiny waterfall spilled down from above to fill a cup-like catch-basin before spilling away into the narrow stream.
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The sewer ended in the stable yard back of the horse barn, in a ten-foot catch-basin near the manure pit.
The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
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A few feet from this catch-basin was a second, and beyond this a third, all of the same size, with drain-pipes connecting them about two feet below the ground.
The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
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"I don't see why he has to drink!" she muttered, and making her way to the spring, dipped some water from the catch-basin and splashed it over her face and arms.
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"He said you had to pile off the rocks 'til you come to the water an' then mud up a catch-basin."
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