sewer

An underground pipe or passage that carries dirty water and waste away from buildings.

• The sewer under our street is blocked.
• Workers repaired the damaged sewer yesterday.
• Heavy rain caused the sewers to overflow.

Similar words: drain

Common phrases: blocked sewer, sewer pipe, sewer system

A person who joins or repairs cloth using a needle and thread.

• My grandmother is a skilled sewer.
• This machine is easy for a beginner sewer to use.
• Experienced sewers helped repair the costumes.

Similar words: sewist

Common phrases: skilled sewer, home sewer, experienced sewer

A person whose job in medieval times was to serve or arrange food at meals.

• The sewer brought food to the lord.
• A royal sewer supervised the serving of dinner.
• The household employed two sewers for its great feasts.

Similar words: server

Common phrases: royal sewer, household sewer, sewer at court

A small moth whose young use silk to join the edges of a leaf together.

• A sewer larva had folded the leaf.
• The apple leaf sewer is a small moth.
• We found several sewers among the orchard's leaves.

Common phrases: apple leaf sewer, leaf sewer larva

To provide a building or area with pipes that carry away dirty water and waste.

• The council plans to sewer the village.
• The district was sewered before the houses were built.
• Sewering remote settlements can be expensive.

Common phrases: sewer an area, sewer a district, sewer the village