: a medieval household officer often of high rank in charge of serving the dishes at table and sometimes of seating and tasting
: an artificial usually subterranean conduit to carry off sewage and sometimes surface water (as from rainfall)
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Noun (2)
a good sewer who designs her own clothing
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Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
Doubling the size of the Dixon School Road bridge over I-85 near the casino entrance and installing new sewer lines near the casino.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 31 May 2024
Construction crews began digging in the courtyard of a farmstead in Wettin last summer to install a new sewer line, the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology in Saxony-Anhalt said in a May 29 news release.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
Yet pathogens circulating among animals are also present in residential sewers as a result of runoff into sewer sheds and other inflows, the presence of animals such as rats in sewers, or discarding large volumes of contaminated milk from dairy cows with H5N1 infection into the sewer system.
—Denis Nash, John Dennehy, Monica Trujillo, STAT, 1 May 2024
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Noun
The Johnson County Department of Health and Environment said the issue occurred after a 21-inch sewer line was damaged by heavy rain.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
Doubling the size of the Dixon School Road bridge over I-85 near the casino entrance and installing new sewer lines near the casino.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 31 May 2024
Construction crews began digging in the courtyard of a farmstead in Wettin last summer to install a new sewer line, the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology in Saxony-Anhalt said in a May 29 news release.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
Yet pathogens circulating among animals are also present in residential sewers as a result of runoff into sewer sheds and other inflows, the presence of animals such as rats in sewers, or discarding large volumes of contaminated milk from dairy cows with H5N1 infection into the sewer system.
—Denis Nash, John Dennehy, Monica Trujillo, STAT, 1 May 2024
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“Sewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sewer. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.
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