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Culvert vs Headwall - What's the difference?

culvert | headwall |

As nouns the difference between culvert and headwall

is that culvert is a transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water while headwall is the highest cliff of a glacial cirque.

As a verb culvert

is to channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.

culvert

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91
    • A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert .
  • * 1996 , , 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.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To channel (a stream of water) through a .

    • headwall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia headwall)
  • (geography) The highest cliff of a glacial cirque.
  • (geology) The steep cliff at the back of a cirque.
  • (civil engineering) A retaining wall at the outlet of a drain or culvert.