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Sewer

payment, may (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Sewers') levy by distress of goods and chattels. By the (English) Land Drainage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 133), the King may upon the recommenda-tion of the Inclosure Commissioners,

Service passage or lane or bye-lane

or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilised for the purpose of serving as or carrying a drain electricity cable (underground or over-head) and any electrical and other allied installations or any other civic services by

Public sewer

as public sewers, provided that a sewer constructed by a local authority after the 1st October, 1937, for draining their own property shall not be deemed public sewers for the purposes of the Act until so declared.

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confiscated

consent especially by or as if by a public authority as the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain teh customs agents confiscated the banned fruits

Lacuna

Lacuna, a ditch ordyke; a furrow for a drain; a blank in writing, Old Records

Outfall

The mouth of a river the lower end of a water course the open end of a drain culvert etc where the discharge occurs

Intare mariscum

Intare mariscum, to drain a marsh or low ground, and convert it into herbage pasture.

Emulge

To milk out to drain

Exhaust

To draw or let out wholly to drain off completely as to exhaust the water of a well the moisture of the earth is exhausted by

Manhole

A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain sewer steam boiler parts of machinery etc for cleaning or repairing

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