Definitions
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 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 empty as a sewer; discharge sewage.
- 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.
- To drain by means of sewers; provide with sewers.
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 humanwaste and to providedrainage . - noun A person who
sews . - noun now historical A
servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
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
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or, if the sewer pipes in the walls of the house, or in the ground under the cellar, are not properly trapped and guarded, _sewer gas_ may escape into the house from them, and this also is most unwholesome, and even dangerous.
A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
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Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
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Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
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Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
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Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
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Sometimes it is just trash, though, gathered along the curbside or stuffed in sewer grates.
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Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
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Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
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Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
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