culvert

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Noun

culvert (plural culverts)

1. A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91

     A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert.

   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 167

     After she left, I ran away for a day, and hid myself, solitary, in a culvert under the railway lines.

Translations

• French: ponceau, drain, buse
• German: Düker
• Portuguese: galeria de drenagem, passagem hidráulica
• Russian: водопропускной
• Spanish: cloaca, tajea

Verb

culvert (culverts, present participle culverting; past and past participle culverted)

1. To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.

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