Crossword-Solution: DRAINAGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drainage | n. | A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain. |
| Drainage | n. | The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers. |
| Drainage | n. | The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. |
| Drainage | n. | Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. |
| Drainage | n. | The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DRAINAGE | anagram | GARDENIA |
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Sentences with DRAINAGE (5)
Four years ago he had been called to Japan to deliver, at the Emperor’s request, a course of lectures at the Imperial University, and had instituted reforms throughout the islands, not only in the practice of bridge-building but in drainage and road-making.
There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.
Lapham entered into the particulars of closets, drainage, kitchen arrangements, and all that, and came back to the table.
The object is not only to cultivate the land in a way to make it pay our boarding department, but at the same time to teach the students, in addition to the practical work, something of the chemistry of the soil, the best methods of drainage, dairying, the cultivation of fruit, the care of livestock and tools, and scores of other lessons needed by a people whose main dependence is on agriculture.
The drainage-ditches were everywhere alive with little crabs--'fiddlers.' One saw them scampering sidewise in every direction whenever they heard a disturbing noise.
Quotes with DRAINAGE (3)
Christ. No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel’s sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think: Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches, God of the Mystery.
Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters away, arms wrapped around his knees. Close by him, a small shaggy horse cropped the grass growing at the edge of the drainage ditch that ran beside the road." So it is," Halt replied. "And he seems to have brought Will with him.
Drainage tubes ran out of his belly and side, and there was a catheter the size of a pencil coming out his penis. Nothing particularly hurt, so he had to assume he was on pretty nearly all the narcotics there were.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).