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Word Meanings - CATCH-BASIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

Related words: (words related to CATCH-BASIN)

  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • BULKY
    Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
  • WHEREIN
    1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
  • GUTTER
    1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
  • WHEREVER
    At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
  • POINT
    puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See Pungent, and cf. Puncto, 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort
  • VAULTING
    1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
  • VAULTY
    Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • WHERETO
    1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • KNIGHT BANNERET
    A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
  • WHEREAS
    1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
  • POINTAL
    The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
  • POINTED
    1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
  • WHERE'ER
    Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • POINT ALPHABET
    An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
  • POINTSMAN
    A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
  • KNIGHT BACHELOR
    A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • WHER; WHERE
    Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • ENVAULT
    To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
  • EVERYWHERENESS
    Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
  • EVERYWHERE
    In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
  • TROIS POINT
    The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • REAPPOINT
    To appoint again.

 

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