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/drˈeɪnədʒ/ /drˈeɪnɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Drainage n.

A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

(Engin.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.

(Surg.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.

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"Drainage" Quotes from Famous Books

... disappeared and are disappearing under the human blight. Even some beautiful insects—the great copper butterfly and the swallow-tail butterfly—have been exterminated in England by human "progress" in the shape of the drainage ...

— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

... imperfect construction, and the disappointment that must necessarily follow. This manual for practical farmers will also be found convenient for references in regard to many questions that may arise in crop growing, aside from the special subjects of drainage of which it treats. ...

— The Peanut Plant - Its Cultivation And Uses • B. W. Jones

... "I've made it healthy for them. Highercombe is a painted lie—a pest-house, a charnel-house, full of unwholesome miasmas from its pretty green, its pond covered with water-lilies. Death lurks in that pond. There is bad drainage and bad water; the damp oozes through the old brick floors of the houses. The whole place is as deadly in its way as those West African jungles of which ...

— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan

... the early autumn, nothing occurred to endanger the leveret's life. The corn grew tall and slowly ripened. Amid its cool shadows the leveret dwelt in solitude. Her "creeps" were out of sight beneath the arching stalks. A gutter for winter drainage, dry and overgrown with grass, formed a tunnel in the hedge-bank between the corn and the root-crop field beyond; and through this gutter the leveret, when at night she grew hungry, could steal into the dense tangle of thistles and nettles fringing the turnips, thence, ...

— Creatures of the Night - A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain • Alfred W. Rees

... tillage, and thought his attempts to introduce tile-drains into use arose chiefly from his desire to make a market for his tiles. Thirty years have made a great change; and a New Hampshire Judge of the Court of Common Pleas gives us a book on Farm-Drainage which tells us that in England twenty millions of dollars have been loaned by the government to be ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various

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