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Sewer vs Withdraught - What's the difference?

sewer | withdraught |

As nouns the difference between sewer and withdraught

is that sewer is a pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage while withdraught is withdrawal.

sewer

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(wikipedia sewer) (en noun)
  • A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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)
  • A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
  • * 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 287:
    • His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer , or waiter.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who sews.
  • A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk.
    • the apple-leaf sewer , Phoxopteris nubeculana
    Synonyms
    * (one who sews) sempster/sempstress , tailor

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    * English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies

    withdraught

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Withdrawal.
  • (label) A private chamber, a room or other area one can withdraw to.
  • *1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XIX:
  • *:the Quene wolde nat suffir her wounded knyghtes to be fro her, but that they were layde in wythdraughtes by hur chambir, uppon beddis and paylattes, that she myght herselff se unto them that they wanted nothynge.
  • *:
  • *:Then when season was, they went unto their chambers, but in no wise the queen would not suffer the wounded knights to be from her, but that they were laid within draughts by her chamber, upon beds and pillows, that she herself might see to them, that they wanted nothing.
  • (label) A privy or sewer.