Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trap for a sink, so constructed as to allow water to pass down, but not to permit an upward escape of air or gases.
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Examples
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Under the viscous coatings a nineteenth-century British rifle is discernible, and the sink-trap plumbing of two primitive Bren guns.
Zion's Vital Signs P. J. O'Rourke 2001
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Under the viscous coatings a nineteenth-century British rifle is discernible, and the sink-trap plumbing of two primitive Bren guns.
Zion's Vital Signs P. J. O'Rourke 2001
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v A day later, I went to Nokomis with Wireman to pick up a new sink-trap for the folks at 17 (sports car; shitty country music) and some plastic fencing at the hardware store for the Mean Dogs.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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