sewer

IPA: sˈuɝ

A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
(now historical) A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc.
One who sews.
A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

Examples of "sewer" in Sentences

The sewer reeks badly.
City sewer systems are overtaxed.
The stream is then returned to the sewer.
In the sewers, Hundred encounters an automaton.
These were used for the purpose of draining the sewer.
Raised in the sewers, he preferred filth to cleanliness.
The rest of the time, they hide in the sewer or somewherelse.
After the treatment, the liquids filter into the sanitary sewer.
Bazalgette's foresight may be seen in the diameter of the sewers.
Sanitation had to be increased to the capacity of the city's sewers.
Water/sewer is different in each "zona" -- I live in the high-rate zone.
Sometimes it is just trash, though, gathered along the curbside or stuffed in sewer grates.
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.