Culvert vs Ditches - What's the difference?
culvert | ditches |
A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.
* 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91
* 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 167
As nouns the difference between culvert and ditches
is that culvert is a transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water while ditches is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between culvert and ditches
is that culvert is to channel (a stream of water) through a culvert while ditches is third-person singular of ditch.culvert
English
Noun
(en noun)- A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert .
- After she left, I ran away for a day, and hid myself, solitary, in a culvert under the railway lines.