Sewer

Quick meaning: Sewer is a noun meaning A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

Meaning

A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
2. One who sews.
3. A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
4. (historical) An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.

Example Sentences

the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.

His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.

While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.

Word Forms

• sewers
• sewering
• sewered

Synonyms for sewer

Depending on context, synonyms include sempster, sempstress, seamster, seamstress, tailor, cloaca.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sewerage, cloaca, drain, drainpipe, gutter, manhole.

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