Soaraway vs Soakaway - What's the difference?
soaraway | soakaway |
(chiefly, UK) A deep hole used for drainage, where rainwater and other wastewater drains directly into the ground, without connection to any mains drainage or sewerage pipes.
* 1916 , , Mr. Britling Sees It Through , ch. 9:
As an adjective soaraway
is that achieves rapid or impressive progress; runaway, roaring.As a noun soakaway is
a deep hole used for drainage, where rainwater and other wastewater drains directly into the ground, without connection to any mains drainage or sewerage pipes.soakaway
English
Noun
(en noun)- These trenches, you know,are much deeper than one's height; you don't see anything. It's like walking along a mud-walled passage. Every now and then some one stumbles into a soakaway for rainwater.