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Definition

an engineered conduit to transport large amounts of water

a 2000-year-old Roman aqueduct

The Owens Valley aqueduct carries water from the Sierras to Los Angeles.
We drove north on Highway 280 beside the aqueduct,
Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy

aqueduct = an engineered conduit to transport large amounts of water

This aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
He walked out of the station and up the street through the high portales of the old stone aqueduct and down into the town.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
The only towns which have had uninterrupted power were those served by hydroelectric plants, provided the plants were undamaged and the aqueducts intact.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
The tunnel inclined steeply as it left the Castle St. Angelo, proceeding upward into the underside of a stone bastion that looked like a Roman aqueduct.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Human blood, in order to keep its freshness, should run in hidden streams, as the water of an aqueduct is conveyed in subterranean pipes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
The good water came over the arches of the great brick aqueduct the Braavosi called the sweetwater river.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Together they raced over the hills, past Roman aqueducts, highways, and vineyards.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
The desert had advanced in three centuries; the aqueducts from the mountains have fallen and shattered; the city itself is only bones.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
The first exit is via the Georgetown Aqueduct, a mile and a half northwest of the White House.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Finally a big park opened up on our left: misty green fields, tree-lined paths, and a few ruined walls like aqueducts, covered in vines.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
The Romans were dead nuts on aqueducts.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
What could you do against a dozen bandits who spring out of some pit, ruin, or aqueduct, and level their pieces at you?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
A toddler gnome poked his head out of an aqueduct only a few feet from the hut.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
He was on a straightaway parallel to a ruined aqueduct.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
The city's aqueduct collapsed like a line of children's blocks.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
At New York's Aqueduct Racecourse late in 1934, Hard Tack's first two yearlings stepped off a railcar into Fitzsimmons's care.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
Think of it as a leaky aqueduct leading to a water wheel.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind

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