Word Meanings - TILE-DRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.

Related words: (words related to TILE-DRAIN)

• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• 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
• 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.
• DRAINER
  One who, or that which, drains.
• TILESEED
  Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof.
• TILESTONE
  A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian. 2. A tile of stone.
• 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.
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
• 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.
• TILE-DRAIN
  To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
• REFURNISHMENT
  The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
• GENTILESSE
  Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. Chaucer.
• BEAUTILESS
  Destitute of beauty. Hammond.
• UNFURNISH
  To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.
• UNDERFURNISH
  To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.