sewer
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈs(j)uːə/
美 /ˈsuɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
— There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.
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An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.
— While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
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One who sews.
— Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goods.
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A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
— the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana
动词 v.
- To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
词源
词源 1
From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.
词源 2
From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit”).
词源 3
sew + -er
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