Sewer vs Drains - What's the difference?
sewer | drains |
A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
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, title= A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
* 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.
(UK, dated) The grain from the mash tub.
Third person singular simple present of to drain.
As nouns the difference between sewer and drains
is that sewer is a pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage or sewer can be a servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc or sewer can be one who sews while drains is .As a verb drains is
third person singular simple present of to drain .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 , tailordrains
English
Noun
(head)- brewers' drains
- (Halliwell)