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Definition of 'sewer'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
*{{quote-magazine|date=2014-06-14|volume=411|issue=8891|magazine=(The Economist)
|title= It's a gas
|passage=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.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asseour, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
- 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.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 287:
- His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer , or waiter.
Etymology 3
Noun
( en-noun)
One who sews.
A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk.
- the apple-leaf sewer , Phoxopteris nubeculana
Synonyms
* (one who sews) sempster/sempstress , tailor
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