sewer

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A person charged with the service of the table, especially a head servant or upper servant in such a capacity.
• noun A conduit or canal constructed, especially in a town or city, to carry off superfluous water, soil, and other matters; a public drain.
• noun In anatomy and zoology, a cloaca.
• noun One who sews or uses the needle.
• noun Specifically—
• noun In bookbinding, the operator, usually a woman, who sews together the sections of a book.
• noun In entomology, the larva of a tortricid moth, one of the leaf-rollers or leaf-folders, as Phoxopteris nubeculana, the. apple-leaf sewer.
• To drain by means of sewers; provide with sewers.
• To empty as a sewer; discharge sewage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who sews, or stitches.
• noun (Zoöl.) A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk
• noun A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.
• noun Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
• noun now historical A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
• noun A person who sews.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
• noun someone who sews
• noun misfortune resulting in lost effort or money