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Definition of Culverts
1. culvert [n] - See also: culvert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culverts
Literary usage of Culverts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"Sometimes the combination of culverts for filling and valves in the lower gates
... culverts may be divided into four general types: miter-wall culverts, ..."
2. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1909)
"PIPE culverts. 5G9 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 ..."
3. Masonry Structures by Frederick Putnam Spalding (1921)
"culverts 177. Types of culverts.—The term culvert is usually applied to structures
intended ... For the smaller openings, pipe culverts of vitrified clay, ..."
4. Masonry Structures by Frederick Putnam Spalding (1921)
"culverts 177. Types of culverts.—The term culvert is usually applied to structures
intended ... For the smaller openings, pipe culverts of vitrified clay, ..."
5. Railroad Construction: Theory and Practice : a Textbook for the Use of by Walter Loring Webb (1903)
"98 are shown the standard plans for vitrified- pipe culverts as used on the ...
Wooden box culverts. This form serves the purpose of a cheap temporary ..."
6. The Elements of Railroad Engineering by William Galt Raymond (1917)
"Very cheap, small box culverts of i or 2 square feet in section, may be built of
2- to ... Stone Box culverts. — Stone box culvert walls are built of rough, ..."
7. The Intercolonial: A Historical Sketch of the Inception, Location by Sandford Fleming (1876)
"... building bridges and culverts—Cuttings and their width—Ballast—Iron and Steel
Rails—Station buildings—Water supply— Principles of construction concurred ..."
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