bleeder tile

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noun

a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.

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The second he does, her giggle sends the Queen of Spades cascading to the brown tile floor below.
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She was standing out of the way, over against the gray tile wall.
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It is in the Elizabethan style, with half-timber frame and sagging tile roof.
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Gutters also of tile ran along the eaves to conduct the water into cisterns, if it was needed for domestic purposes.
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The roofs are of tile, for the winters on the hills are too severe to permit the flat, terraced roofs of Algiers or Bona.
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This stopper sometimes is of tile, sometimes a plug of paper or burlap.
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