water trap
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Instead, Sullivan not only fails to clear it, he installs a water trap in front of it.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2018
Those parts of the anatomy are to the surgeon what a washbowl, water trap and waste pipe are to a master plumber.
From Time Magazine Archive
It begins at Woodvale, where the dam broke, and for the entire distance to this point the mountains make a canyon—a water trap, from which escape was impossible.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
The plan was therefore adopted of placing a water trap under the water closet basin or the sink, etc., in direct communication with the drain.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various
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