Drainage
['dreɪnɪdʒ] or ['drenɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.
(n.) The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.
(n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.
(n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.
(n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.
Checker: Merle
Examples
- Gas and ventilation, drainage and water-service, all of the primest quality. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The water in the drainage canal is about ten feet below the bottom of the canal, or at elevation +30. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Chicago Drainage Canal is a work just completed, which largely employed these devices. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This valley or gorge is probably the work of the inflowing waters of the ocean at the termination of the period of interior drainage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perfect drainage at the bottom without the admission of air. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It has been estimated that the drainage or sewage of England alone would be worth $ 80,000,000 a year if used as fertilizer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The slab floor will allow a free drainage of all the water which runs down through the packing from the melting ice. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Editor: Luke