Word Meanings - GRINDLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small drain.

Related words: (words related to GRINDLET)

• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• DRAINTRAP
  See 5
• DRAINPIPE
  A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
• DRAINTILE
  A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.
• DRAINAGE
  The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. 4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham. (more info) 1. A draining; a gradual
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• DRAINABLE
  Capable of being drained.
• DRAIN
  1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
• DRAINING
  The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. Draining tile. Same as Draintile.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• DRAINER
  One who, or that which, drains.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• TOP-DRAINING
  The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
• TOP-DRAIN
  To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
• WELLDRAIN
  To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.
• CATCHDRAIN
  A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
• UNDERDRAIN
  An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• TILE-DRAIN
  To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.