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Definition of Culvert
1. Noun. A transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway.
Definition of Culvert
1. n. A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Definition of Culvert
1. Noun. A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Culvert
1. a conduit [n -S] - See also: conduit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culvert
Literary usage of Culvert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The first bridge or culvert across Tar branch was built with brick walls on either
side, and around this culvert the children played ..."
2. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"of time when a properly proportioned culvert will perish in some excessive flood.
It is easy to make a culvert large enough to be safe under all ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"culvert. In a deed conveying two parcels of land to a railway, with the understanding
that in constructing a culvert in its road on the new location it ..."
4. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"Note ice layering. logic, and ground temperature data in central Alaska; field
testing of three icing control techniques; and a laboratory study of culvert ..."
5. Good Roads Year Book by American Highway Association (1914)
"INGOT IRON ARMCO culvert is entering upon its second period of usefulness. ...
California Corrugated culvert Company, The pipe when removed showed hardly ..."
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