noun. A person charged with the service of the table, especially a head servant or upper servant in such a capacity.

noun. A conduit or canal constructed, especially in a town or city, to carry off superfluous water, soil, and other matters; a public drain.

noun. In anatomy and zoology, a cloaca.

noun. One who sews or uses the needle.

noun. Specifically—

noun. In bookbinding, the operator, usually a woman, who sews together the sections of a book.

noun. In entomology, the larva of a tortricid moth, one of the leaf-rollers or leaf-folders, as Phoxopteris nubeculana, the. apple-leaf sewer.

To drain by means of sewers; provide with sewers.

To empty as a sewer; discharge sewage.

noun. One who sews, or stitches.

noun. A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk

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

noun. 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.

noun. A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

noun. A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.

noun. A person who sews.

noun. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

noun. someone who sews

noun. misfortune resulting in lost effort or money

"Or, if the sewer pipes in the walls of the house, or in the ground under the cellar, are not properly trapped and guarded, _sewer gas_ may escape into the house from them, and this also is most unwholesome, and even dangerous."

courts of commissioners of sewers  open sewer  

bad luck  drain  drainpipe  ill luck  misfortune  

Breuer  Brewer  Dewar  bluer  brewer  

Wells  alley  aqueduct  canal  cellar  

Singer  abri  antre  bog  bunker  

sewered  sewering  sewers