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culvert
[ kuhl-vert ]
noun
- a drain or channel crossing under a road, sidewalk, etc.; sewer; conduit.
culvert
/ ˈkʌlvət /
noun
- a drain or covered channel that crosses under a road, railway, etc
- a channel for an electric cable
- a tunnel through which water is pumped into or out of a dry dock
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Origin of culvert1
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Example Sentences
She was driving to meet a reporter waiting in an Oklahoma City motel when she crashed into the concrete wing wall of a culvert.
A culvert packed with explosives presents a particularly dangerous and challenging problem.
A "culvert" is a bridge of small span giving passage to drainage.
"I don't know—I couldn't see—we ran into a culvert," replied Maud.
There was a shrieking streak of white and he disappeared under a culvert.
By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert.
Under the natural culvert, formed by the trunk fallen across, they cast their lines, using flies from their hook.
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