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sewer

noun
/ˈs(j)uːə/UK/ˈsuɚ/US/ˈsəʊə/UK/ˈsoʊɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.

  1. inherited from sewer

Definitions

  1. A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to…

    A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

    • There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.
    • One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

  2. To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

  3. An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task…

    An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.

    • While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
    • His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. One who sews.

    2. A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

      • the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sewer. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sewer. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sewer

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA