Trenching, draining. Also attributive. Now dialect.

Scottish. A channel, gutter.

The action of draining by means of sewers.

The process or an instance of draining land by means of enclosed channels beneath the soil.

A burrow, underground passage, or mine; in Roman Archaeology applied to the ancient ‘cunicular’ drains of Latium and Southern Etruria.

a rubble drain.

A channel or drain made in the surface of the ground; a gutter, a rain-spout. Now rare.

the draining of land by trenches filled with brushwood.

(see quot. 1967); also as v.

The draining of agricultural land with buried pipes. Cf. pipe drain, n.

A drain carried under another watercourse by means of a tunnel. Cf. fox, v. 3.

A small subterranean drain made in agricultural land by a mole plough.

The operation of draining or making drains. Also attributive, as soughing-tile, soughing tool.

Chiefly in Mexico and the south-western United States: an irrigation channel; (also) an open drain.

the use of well drains to drain land.

a mode of draining land, somewhat similar to plug-draining.

a system of draining heavy clay land, in which plugs or blocks of wood are placed at the bottom of a cutting to keep the channel open while the…

The technique of draining land by making drainage courses with a mole plough.

a box-like channel for drainage; a rainwater pipe of this form.

= mole-draining, n.

A drainage system dug by a mole plough.

drainage constructed of tiles.

A short pipe with a pointed end and perforated side which can be driven into the ground to facilitate the extraction of groundwater when attached to…

In Afghanistan and Baluchistan: = kanat, n.2

= storm drain n. above.

Agriculture. The action or process of making mole drains.

= tile-draining n. at tile, n.1 compounds 2.

a drain built to carry away excess water in times of heavy rain.