: a medieval household officer often of high rank in charge of serving the dishes at table and sometimes of seating and tasting
: an artificial usually subterranean conduit to carry off sewage and sometimes surface water (as from rainfall)
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Noun (2)
a good sewer who designs her own clothing
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Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
By contrast, the current 45-acre site on North Fountain Green Road is in the county’s priority funding area and is on public water and sewer, which led the state to allocate $50 million to develop the new school building.
—Ben Terzi, Baltimore Sun, 19 May 2024
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Noun
But that hasn’t exactly worked in the age of Trump, who has gone so low that climbing into the sewer would require a ladder.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
By contrast, the current 45-acre site on North Fountain Green Road is in the county’s priority funding area and is on public water and sewer, which led the state to allocate $50 million to develop the new school building.
—Ben Terzi, Baltimore Sun, 19 May 2024
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“Sewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sewer. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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