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[edit]Etymology 1
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From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so͞o'ə, IPA(key): /ˈs(j)uːə/
- (General American) enPR: so͞oər, IPA(key): /ˈsuɚ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophone: suer
- Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: sew‧er
Noun
[edit]sewer (plural sewers)
- A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
- 2014 June 14, “It’s a gas”, in The Economist[1], volume 411, number 8891, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-06-12:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage
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Verb
[edit]sewer (third-person singular simple present sewers, present participle sewering, simple past and past participle sewered)
- (transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so͞o'ə, IPA(key): /ˈs(j)uːə/
- (General American) enPR: so͞oər, IPA(key): /ˈsuɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: sew‧er
Noun
[edit]sewer (plural sewers)
- (historical) An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 116–117:
- While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 287:
- His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.
Etymology 3
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sō'ə, IPA(key): /ˈsəʊə/
- (US) enPR: sō'ər, IPA(key): /ˈsoʊɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: sower
- Rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: sew‧er
Noun
[edit]sewer (plural sewers)
- One who sews.
- 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 131–132:
- Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goods.
- A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
- the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana
Synonyms
[edit]- (one who sews): sempster/sempstress (man/woman), seamster/seamstress (man/woman), tailor, sewist
Translations
[edit]person who sews clothing
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Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]sewer
- Alternative form of suren
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