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Definition of Cunette
1. n. A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.
Definition of Cunette
1. Noun. A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cunette
1. cuvette [n -S] - See also: cuvette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cunette
Literary usage of Cunette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1914)
"Section on incline of about 30 dog. to horizontal, and cunette used to confine
... Invert of cunette lined with 3G-in. vitrified clay channel pipe. Fig. ..."
2. A Text-book of Military Engineering: For the Use of the Cadets of the United by Junius Brutus Wheeler, United States Military Academy (1884)
"For the purpose of keeping the bottom dry, a cunette, two yards wide at bottom,
... The slopes of the sides of the cunette are }. It passes under the double ..."
3. An Elementary Course of Military Engineering by Dennis Hart Mahan (1867)
"IV. and V.) A cunette 4.0 yards wide at top, and 3 feet deep, is made in the main
ditch to serve as a drain. These details will be best understood by ..."
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