Culvert
['kʌlvət] or ['kʌlvɚt]
Definition
(noun.) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway.
Editor: Maris--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Inputed by Gerard
Definition
n. an arched channel of masonry for carrying water beneath a road railway &c.
Typist: Trevor
Examples
- The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They ran for the culvert and ducked in. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The man was down in the road halfway between the culvert and the truck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- See those coming out of the culvert. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The entire lock can be filled or emptied in fifteen minutes and forty-two seconds when one culvert is used and seven minutes and fifty-one seconds, using both culverts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His nose has been broken at some time or other, and is arched like a culvert now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The night was dark, and I fell into a culvert and was knocked senseless. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Start firing when it is opposite the culvert. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The driver and the two men who had been with him were running toward a culvert. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We are above the culvert, he saw, and just below the height where the road drops down straight toward the bridge in that long sweep. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The entire lock can be filled or emptied in fifteen minutes and forty-two seconds when one culvert is used and seven minutes and fifty-one seconds, using both culverts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He also sent a division along the James River Canal to destroy locks, culverts etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Inputed by Lawrence