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/ˈso͞oər/,
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sewers, plural;
  1. A person who sews

  1. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
  2. someone who sews; "a sewer of fine gowns"
  3. gutter: misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet"
  4. (Sewers (album)) Sewers is the third studio album by death metal band Torture Killer. Released February 25, 2009 through Dynamic Arts Records.
  5. A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
  6. (sewering) The act of constructing or replacing a sewer system for a new development or neighborhood
  7. (sewers) Pipes or tunnels that carry away sewage.
  8. (Sewers) Bio-disc wastewater treatment system
  9. (Sewery) A store-room for provisions, linen, and other table-furniture.
  10. A channel or conduit that carries wastewater and storm water runoff from the source to a treatment plant or receiving stream.
  11. any system of pipes, drains, pumping works, equipment, structures and other things used for the collection, transportation or disposal of wastewater, but does not include any building drain, plumbing or building sewer.
  12. means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage and other waste liquids excluding hazardous materials. This includes sanitary sewer, side sewer, and combined sewer.
  13. The person who sews the sheets together on the sewing press—generally a female.
  14. A man-made, underground conduit which conveys, by gravity, sewage, stormwater runoff, or a combination of the two (sewage and stormwater runoff) away from a populated area to a nearby stream, often via a sewage treatment plant.
  15. That term which is described as either the wastewater from residences, buildings, establishments, plants or industries, or the pipe or conduit which carries sewage to the pretreatment facility. ...
  16. A pipe conveying wastewater or sewage discharged into it from two or more house drains.
  17. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. See following terms modifying sewer: branch, building, building storm, combined, common, depressed, egg-shaped, flight, house, intercepting, lateral, main, outfall, private, public, relief, sanitary, separate, storm, storm overflow, ...
  18. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater. Not to be confused with drain pipes which carry untreated runoff water to nearby waterways to reduce flooding of pavements. [2]
  19. generally, an underground conduit usually carrying waste matter in a liquid medium.
  20. An underground system of conduits (pipes and/or tunnels) that collect and transport wastewaters and/or runoff; gravity sewers carry free-flowing water and wastes; pressurized sewers carry pumped wastewaters under pressure.
  21. A servant who lays the table, serves the meal etc.
  22. Means of transporting sewage from the house to the septic tank
  23. The system of pipes that carries wastewater from homes and businesses to a treatment plant or reclamation plant. Sewers are separate from storm drains, which is a system of drains and pipes that carry rain water from urban streets back to the ocean. ...
  24. A pipe that carries waste. (When it is more than 2 feet from the foundation it is no longer referred to as a drain, but a sewer)
  25. a system of underground pipes that collect and deliver wastewater to treatment facilities or streams.