sewer line
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- noun
- /ˈsuːər laɪn/
- Specialized
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- Goshen Township: A new sewer line project in Damascus could be in the works.
- the main sewer line
- a new sewer line
- repair a sewer line
You know, some are beautiful bronze tunnels with clean walls and others are sewer lines, right?
- You know, some are beautiful bronze tunnels with clean walls and others are sewer lines, right?
- It was just barely bigger in the size of your hand or so, but it fortunately for her, their sewer line was already stopped up.
Examples
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Woodcroft, a cul-de-sac that was cut through in the 1920s, was not linked to a sewer line until 1929.
Academic text (1991) -
"Now you know the sewer line is in the street."
Fiction book (1992) -
This is a picture of a sewer line before it has been treated.
Academic text (2011) -
We're only 500 feet from the main sewer line.
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The sewer lines run under this neighborhood, too...
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I'm accessing the sewer line.
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And we have to put the sewer line through Julian's property.
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This is the sewer line, and according to this map right here, it's all cemented up.
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When our house was built, the housing development's sewer lines didn't exist yet.
Blog text (3) -
We cannot afford to rebuild roads, bridges, public buildings, and water and sewer lines.
Synonyms
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An underground pipe that carries away dirty water and waste
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A large underground pipe that carries dirty water from buildings to a treatment plant
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Morphology
The meaning 'a main pipe that carries sewage' is directly and compositionally derived from 'sewer' (wastewater pipe) + 'line' (a long conduit or pipe in compounds like 'water line' or 'gas line'). This noun–noun compound follows a transparent, cross-linguistic pattern and would be readily understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Sewer line comes from a simple picture: the word sewer means the system for 'dirty water' and the word line means a long pipe under the street that carries it away. So sewer line means the main pipe that takes 'dirty water' from buildings to a place where it is cleaned.