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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An arrangement of piping in connection with underground receptacles for sewage, or in disposal plants, by which the liquid is removed by siphoning, usually automatic, so as to effect a preliminary separation before the discharge is conveyed to disposing-works, or to retain the sewage in a contact-bed for a specified time and then discharge it.
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