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A transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway
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culvert
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or similar obstruction from one side to the other side. Typically embedded so as to be surrounded by soil, a culvert may be made from a pipe , reinforced concrete or other ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Culvert \Cul"vert\ (k?l"v?rt), n. [Prob. from OF. coulouere, F. couloir, channel, gutter, gallery, fr. couler to flow. See Cullis .] A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A smaller culvert , 30 metres in length, crosses beneath Lasswade Road. ▪ He opened the throttle, blasting the motor cycle broadside into the culvert . ▪ He remembers when the same spot washed out in 1950, but then the old culverts ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water. vb. To channel (a stream of water) through a #Noun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1773, origin unknown, perhaps, as Weekley suggests, the name of a long-forgotten engineer or bridge-builder.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway
Usage examples of culvert.
The brick wall and gateposts on the south side of the innyard had fallen inward, but the culvert under the entrance lane remained.
Rock stepped into the mouth of the culvert he saw a lumpy floor, which at first glance he thought consisted of rocks lying on dried mud.
They splashed up the creek to the culvert, retrieved their bicycles from the bushes, and went their various ways, after agreeing to meet at the same place after breakfast.
At the same time they destroyed a couple of culverts and tore up three hundred yards of the permanent way.
It was amazing to note the shattered culverts as one passed, and yet to be overtaken by trains within a day.
There were sections of the sewer in which light filtered down from above, through culverts, gratings, broken street stones, and other interstices.
During the day there were places in the sewer where illumination filtered down from above, tunnels close to the surface where culverts had broken through, others below streets where missing stones or open drains admitted daylight.
If they returned to the culvert to see if they could detect her scent in the cleaner air beyond the decomposing raccoon, she would be out of the downdraught that swept the main line, and they might not smell her.
There were no military vehicles in the cuds to back up patrols because too many had been taken out by culvert bombs.
Chrissie know that the culvert was about to collapse and fill with earth, squishing her as if she were a bug and trapping her forever.
At dawn, when the night retreats across the Pacific toward distant Asia, it is reluctant to go, leaving deep black pools in alleyways, under parked cars, in culverts, and beneath the leafy canopies of ancient oaks.
In the midst of the trees a shallow and apparently unnamed creek crossed the interstate in a box culvert.
Without hesitation the two men lifted the false floor and went below into the cool wet of the culvert.
The roadway was gullied in spots where flash floods had struck or culverts blocked, and some of the bridges were down, but it was still passable for wheeled traffic if you weren't in a tearing hurry.
One trooper was dead, but the corporal was bellied down in a culvert, and his M16's flash suppressor glowed incandescent as it spewed fire into the mob.