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Culvert

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Noun

1. culvert

a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Culvert

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noun
1. 
a drain or covered channel that crosses under a road, railway, etc
2. 
a channel for an electric cable
3. 
a tunnel through which water is pumped into or out of a dry dock

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Culvert

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noun
a conduit, esp. a drain, as a pipelike construction of stone, concrete, or metal, that passes under a road, railroad track, footpath, etc. or through an embankment

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Culvert

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n.
1. A sewer or drain crossing under a road or embankment.
2.
a. The part of a road or embankment that passes over such a sewer or drain.
b. The channel or conduit for such a sewer or drain.

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