sewer
noun
- infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊə/ / /ˈsoʊɚ/ / /ˈs(j)uːə/ / /ˈsuɚ/
noun
Etymology: sew + -er
- 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.”
- A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
“the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.