culvert

[ UK /kˈʌlvɜːt/ ]
[ US /ˈkəɫvɝt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway
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How To Use culvert In A Sentence

  • Murphy said he talked with canal officials about whether there was a way to temporarily rewater part of the canal for the event, and he showed them a drawing of the town's concept for putting up a dike so the area used for the event could be filled while the culvert area remained dry. The Herald-Mail Online
  • We found a grinding wheel during the dig, so one theory is that the water may have been pumped from the river through the culvert to power the machinery.
  • New culverts likely will have to be placed in a new location, Douglas said.
  • The figure also shows a little tensile stress at the roof center of larger culverts.
  • It was not actually as cool as I had hoped in that all the old brickwork is up the dangerous channel (the way we didn't go) so it was basically just a really long, filthy culvert, and the river was foul, but I now know an awful lot about buried rivers. May 10th, 2009
  • Drainage facilities, such as perforated pipes, troughs or culverts, allow hydraulic filter bed cleaning. 8. Classification of roughing filters
  • If you choose this as your option, then swales, culverts, and drain fields may need to be figured into your plans.
  • Talking to the engineers, environmentalists and politicians responsible, I realised that here, where council engineers want to culvert more of it, we are ten years behind the times.
  • The key points of polypropylene fiber concrete in and culvert works are also introduced.
  • Effluent discharges are often made inconspicuous by buildings or the frequent disappearance of the watercourse into culverts.
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