Synonyms for culvert
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuhl-vert |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌl vərt |
Définition of culvert
Origin :- 1773, origin unknown, perhaps, as Weekley suggests, the name of a long-forgotten engineer or bridge-builder.
- noun ditch for flow of water
- The adjacency of the edge of the culvert warned him of what had befallen.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- It also indicates to the drivers the location of the end of the culvert.
- Extract from : « American Rural Highways » by T. R. Agg
- These are usually constructed with endwalls integral with the barrel of the culvert.
- Extract from : « American Rural Highways » by T. R. Agg
- "I don't know—I couldn't see—we ran into a culvert," replied Maud.
- Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland
- There was a shrieking streak of white and he disappeared under a culvert.
- Extract from : « Jane Journeys On » by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
- Their crossing was at a culvert, where the road passed under the tracks.
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on the Trail » by George Durston
- Every little bridge and culvert had been known and was provided for.
- Extract from : « The World Peril of 1910 » by George Griffith
- The culvert was built underneath a trestle which was afterwards filled in.
- Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
- The contractors then built the culvert which has a barrel 140 ft. long.
- Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette
- His nose has been broken at some time or other, and is arched like a culvert now.
- Extract from : « The Innocents Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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