sewer : Idioms & Phrases

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Leaf sewer

  • (Zoöl.), a tortricid moth, whose caterpillar makes a nest by rolling up a leaf and fastening the edges together with silk, as if sewn; esp., Phoxopteris nubeculana, which feeds upon the apple tree.
Webster 1913

sewer gas

  • noun foul-smelling gas that forms in sewers
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sewer line

  • noun a main in a sewage system
    sewer line.
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sewer main

  • noun a main in a sewage system
    sewer line.
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sewer rat

  • noun brown rat commonly found in sewers
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sewer system

  • noun facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage
    sewage system; sewage works.
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sewer water

  • noun water mixed with waste matter
    effluent; wastewater.
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