Drifts vs Culvert - What's the difference?
drifts | culvert |
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 drifts and culvert
is that drifts is while culvert is a transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.As verbs the difference between drifts and culvert
is that drifts is (drift) while culvert is to channel (a stream of water) through a.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.