Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pipe laid at the level of the bottom of a canal for letting off the water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pipe to let off water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a pipe to drain or let off water
Etymologies
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From off- + let
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Examples
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First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump.
James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877
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