Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The system of drains and conduits by means of which drainage and sewage are collected and conveyed by gravity to an outfall or a place of disposal.
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- noun The act of constructing or replacing a
sewer system for a new development or neighborhood.
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Examples
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Fairfax County has offered to expend $125,000 for sewering this land through the county system.
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As to giving employment in sewering and draining -- which would benefit the estate -- it is not every man who can afford to set his land at a cheap rate, and afterwards to expend his income for the immediate benefit of the occupier.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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Collars cost about half the price of tiles, which they are made to connect, so that the use of them adds one-third to the expense of the sewering material; and, as I have already pointed out, I think it quite unnecessary to use them where the subsoil is _firm_, and where the drain can be bottomed to _fit the tile_.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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On _new_ land, trenching was sometimes carried on simultaneously with the drainage; and it very often happened that the removal of the stones thus brought to the surface, was very expensive; but they were turned to profitable account in sewering drains and building substantial fences.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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Where large pipes are not to be had conveniently for sewering main or sub-drains, I find a proportional number of pipes of lesser diameter to answer perfectly.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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Frankfort-on-the-Main, at Dantzic, and at Hamburg, where similar results obtained of a heavy zymotic mortality previous to the sewering of the cities, and a lighter mortality on the completion of the works.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various
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Within a few years the work of sewering the city has been systematized and pushed forward vigorously.
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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The evils which have arisen from the sewering and draining of towns have been of a twofold character.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various
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There was no doubt, he said, that in the sewering of towns want of experience in the construction of works had in some cases led to deposits in the sewers, and evil consequences had ensued; but it might be accepted as certain that in every case where the sewerage had been devised on sound principles, and where the works had been carried on under intelligent supervision, a largely reduced death-rate had invariably followed.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various
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The city of San Francisco was then extending her streets, sewering them, and planking them, with three-inch lumber.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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