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Drainage vs Culver - What's the difference?

drainage | culver |

As nouns the difference between drainage and culver

is that drainage is a natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area while culver is (British dialect, poetic) A dove or pigeon.

As a proper noun Culver is

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drainage

English

(wikipedia drainage)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.
  • A system of drains.

    • Derived terms

    * positive drainage

    Anagrams

    * ----

    culver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British dialect, poetic ) A dove or pigeon.
  • A dove, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • Had he so doen, he had him snatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fist.
  • * 1885 , The book of the thousand nights and a night Vol. 5, Richard Burton:
    • a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon.
  • A culverin.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.

    Synonyms

    * wood pigeon