Sewer vs Drainer - What's the difference?
sewer | drainer |
A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
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* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 287:
One who sews.
A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk.
That which drains.
* 2003 , Gail Waesche Kislevitz, The Spirit of the Marathon (page 78)
A frame or rack for allowing washed crockery etc to dry naturally.
A person who explores drains, tunnels, and/or sewers.
As nouns the difference between sewer and drainer
is that sewer is a pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage while drainer is that which drains.sewer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia sewer) (en noun)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asseour, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer , holding his white rod of office.
- His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer , or waiter.
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- the apple-leaf sewer , Phoxopteris nubeculana
Synonyms
* (one who sews) sempster/sempstress , tailordrainer
English
Noun
(en noun)- I know that poor form is one of the biggest drainers of energy, so even though I slowed down significantly I made a very conscious effort to maintain good form.