OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16757

sewer

/ˈs(j)uːə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
albañal • albañar • albollón • alcantarilla • alcantarillado • cloaca • desagüe
A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
He first learned about sewers last year in science class.
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any m…
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📚 noun • entry_id 16758

sewer

/ˈsəʊə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cosedor • cosedora • costurera • costurero
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 tw…
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