Culvert is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CULVERT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to channel a stream through an arched construction or channel enclosing a drain or watercourse beneath a road, railway, etc.
• channel (a stream or drain) through a culvert
• direct water through a culvert
NOUN:
• a tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railway.
• A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
• a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway
• drain under a road or railway
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to channel a stream through a conduit

Words related to CULVERT

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Words that contain CULVERT

culverts13 culverted15 culvertage16 culverting16 culvertages17 culvertailed18

How to use CULVERT in a sentence

• The temperature of the water at the mouth of the culvert was 180 deg.
• Every day squads of our fellow-prisoners marched away, and my gang was left till nearly last, being engaged in making good a culvert that heavy rains had broken down.
• But the water was flowing already! Here and there they had to dig deeper, a culvert had to be raised or lowered, but it flowed.
• It is exactly where the little stream that bounds the parish passes under the road by a culvert, and where it emerges at the road-side, a stone with an old inscription is placed.
• Arches of two or more half-brick rings in cement are good construction, and are also used for culvert work.
• The footprints seemed to turn in beneath the culvert, and then they were lost in the deep, dark mud.
• At the bottom of that hill the railway crosses your road, and that culvert will be watched with especial care.
• There is a crossroad less than half a mile beyond that culvert.
• For the first time he took his eyes from the culvert itself and looked around.
• The road here descended much more steeply than the railway, and that, Fred judged, was the reason for the culvert.
• It was plain to him that there were more dangers ahead than those represented by the soldiers on the culvert.
• The slightest mischance, the most trifling circumstance, might arouse suspicion in the watchers on the culvert.
• For just a moment, before they were actually under the culvert, Fred, looking up, saw the white faces of those above, staring curiously.
• Fred thought he heard a shout as they passed under the culvert.
• So great was their speed that they seemed to reach it before they were well out from the shadow of the culvert, yet they had traveled two hundred yards or more.
• Naturally, if the Germans on the culvert thought that a car containing two German officers had been wrecked, they would come to the rescue.
• Elandslaagte is a little village and railway station seventeen miles north-east of Ladysmith, where two days before the Boers had blown up a culvert and captured a train.
• One man with a bomb and a time fuse attached to it can blow up a culvert and block a whole line so that precious hours might be lost in getting troops aboard a transport.
• Did we have difficulties over a culvert which had been hastily mended, he was out of the car and in command.
• A two-pounder lies fanning himself just in the cool of the main culvert, where the alders have crept up to the city wall.
• On the bridge crossing a deep culvert at the suburbs she glanced around, and then kneeling she thrust the lunch box between the foundation and the flooring.
• Coming home she confessed she was half starved because she hid her dinner under a culvert, and a tramp took it.
• She had almost reached the bridge crossing the culvert when she heard distressed screams of a child.
• Hitherto he had hardly dared trust himself out of sight of a culvert.
• A few hundred yards ahead was a stone culvert spanning the bed of a creek whose waters years before had been diverted to a reservoir a mile or so to the east.
• Holding our speed for a few seconds, which seemed like minutes, we surged toward the old culvert.
• The arch of the culvert was not thirty feet away, but had we not been protected by the embankment we should have been beaten down and killed ere we reached its shelter.
• A tree fell across the west opening, one twisted limb projecting well into the tunnel of the culvert.
• With light hearts we waved farewell to the kindly old culvert and set our pace toward Woodvale.
• We continually came across a little band of, say, twenty or thirty men and a couple of officers stationed near some culvert or bridge.

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