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n. (plural of water main English)
Usage examples of "water mains".
The men who had dug it had broken both gas and water mains, but, since neither had worked for months, that didn't matter.
Yet here they were, surrounding the Polish capital, pounding it with explosives and flying steel, breaking the water mains, killing the children, turning living people into stiff glassy-eyed dead stacked garbage to be carted away and disposed of.
Yet at the same time, they wanted to start rebuilding immediately, without waiting to install sewers and water mains.
The bomb had broken water mains and loosed an avalanche of dirt down onto the room containing the escalators.
He talked about bridges falling down and water mains breaking because of no maintenance.
Sir Hugh Middleton constructed 400 miles of wooden water mains for London in 1609-13.
He had been consumed with thirst until he found one of the water mains near the railway arch smashed, and the water bubbling out like a spring upon the road.