sewer, sewerage, cloaca
(noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
sewer
(noun) someone who sews; “a sewer of fine gowns”
gutter, sewer, toilet
(noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; “his career was in the gutter”; “all that work went down the sewer”; “pensions are in the toilet”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sewer (plural sewers)
A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
sewer (third-person singular simple present sewers, present participle sewering, simple past and past participle sewered)
(transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
sewer (plural sewers)
(now historical) A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc.
sewer (plural sewers)
One who sews.
A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
• (one who sews): sempster/sempstress (man/woman), seamster/seamstress (man/woman), tailor
• Ewers, Weser, ewers, re-sew, resew, sweer, weres
Source: Wiktionary
Sew"er, n.
1. One who sews, or stitches.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)
Sew"er, n. Etym: [OF. sewiere, seuwiere, ultimately fr. L. ex out + a derivative of aqua water; cf. OF. essevour a drain, essever, esseuwer, essiaver, to cause to flow, to drain, to flow, LL. exaquatorium a channel through which water runs off. Cf. Ewer, Aquarium.]
Definition: A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.
Sew"er, n. Etym: [Cf. OE. assewer, and asseour, OF. asseour, F. asseoir to seat, to set, L. assidere to sit by; ad + sedere to sit (cf. Sit); or cf. OE. sew pottage, sauce, boiled meat, AS. seáw juice, Skr. su to press out.]
Definition: Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests. Then the sewer Poured water from a great and golden ewer, That from their hands to a silver caldron ran. Chapman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
