Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drain or channel through which water may run.
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Examples
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_Piscina_ -- a water-drain in a church placed on the right-hand side of an altar for the use of the priest.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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Names derived from artificial watercourses are Channell, now replaced as a common noun by the learned form canal; Condy or Cundy, for the earlier Cunditt, conduit; Gott, cognate with gut, used in Yorkshire for the channel from a mill-dam, and in Lincolnshire for a water-drain on the coast; Lade, Leete, connected with the verb to lead; and sometimes Shore (Chapter XII), which was my grandfather's pronunciation of sewer.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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