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noun

Sewer n.

One who sews, or stitches.

(Zool.) A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)

Sewer n. A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

Sewer n. 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."

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"Sewer" Quotes from Famous Books

... similar exploit, he was arrested and committed to jail in Essex county, to await his trial. But the prison being then in a process of repair, Uncle Obed, with other victims of the law, was incarcerated in the fort in Salem harbor. He made his escape, however, by crawling through the sewer, as Jack Sheppard did from Newgate prison. The sentinel on duty saw a mass of seaweed floating on the surface of the water. Now, this was nothing extraordinary, but it was extraordinary for seaweed to float against the tide. Uncle Obed's head was in that floating mass. He was hailed ...

— The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales • Francis A. Durivage

... time he had picked himself up, and in the light that streamed out from the open door of the house he saw the hole into which he had so nearly fallen. It was a hole dug by a man who had come to fix the sewer pipes that day, and when night came he had not finished. He left a deep, wide, gaping hole just ...

— The Story of Calico Clown • Laura Lee Hope

... last, there is a rift within the lute; or would it better be called a leak in the sewer? Comstockery has not quite the standing that it once had. When it was made generally known that a postoffice official had said that any discussion of sex was obscene, there followed such a rattling fire of reprobation and condemnation even ...

— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 • Various

... sit down to write with as much reluctance as though I were about to relate my experience of a journey through a sewer. ...

— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... which a continual inspection roots out from the cells to make room for fresh occupants; here, at the time of the autumn massacre, are flung the backward grubs; here, lastly, lies a good part of the crowd killed by the first touch of winter. During the rack and ruin of November and December, this sewer becomes crammed with ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

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