catch-basin

See also: catchbasin

English

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Noun

catch-basin (plural catch-basins)

  1. A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matter that would not pass readily through the sewer.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for catch-basin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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