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Sewer

//ˈs(j)uːə// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes. historical

    "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."

  3. 3
    One who sews.

    "Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goods."

  4. 4
    a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water wordnet
  5. 5
    A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

    "the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana"

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  1. 6
    someone who sews wordnet
  2. 7
    misfortune resulting in lost effort or money wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To provide (a place) with a system of sewers. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit”).

Etymology 4

sew + -er

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