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[ kuhl-vert ] / ˈkʌl vərt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR culvert ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna drain or channel crossing under a road, sidewalk, etc.; sewer; conduit. Origin of culvertFirst recorded in 1765–75; origin uncertain Words nearby culvertculver, Culver City, culver hole, culverin, Culver's root, culvert, Culzean Castle, cum, cumacean, Cumae, Cumaná Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for culvertShe was driving to meet a reporter waiting in an Oklahoma City motel when she crashed into the concrete wing wall of a culvert. Edward Snowden’s Whistleblowing Saga Mirrors the Karen Silkwood Case|Richard Rashke|July 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST A culvert packed with explosives presents a particularly dangerous and challenging problem. Remember the Living|Brian Castner|May 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST It was the culvert, of course; it had broken down, and lucky I was that the ditch underneath was shallow. Over Prairie Trails|Frederick Philip Grove Houses were demolished, swept from their foundations and carried in the flood to a culvert near the town. The Johnstown Horror|James Herbert Walker
There were the hatches, there was the culvert; they could see the pebbly bed of the stream through the pellucid water. Life's Little Ironies|Thomas Hardy From each mixer a track led out over the culvert form and a track along the top of this form ran the full length of the culvert. Concrete Construction|Halbert P. Gillette This is to prevent the end of the culvert from becoming choked with earth and to retain the roadway at the culvert. American Rural Highways|T. R. Agg
British Dictionary definitions for culvert
nouna drain or covered channel that crosses under a road, railway, etc a channel for an electric cable a tunnel through which water is pumped into or out of a dry dock Word Origin for culvertC18: of unknown origin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to culvertpipe, duct, gutter, canal, conduit, drain, watercourse, channel |