All 8 Uses of
culvert
in
Watership Down
- The cart track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge.
p. 3..6culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
- Hazel caught him up by the culvert.
p. 6..0
- They ran over the culvert.†
p. 6..7 *
- Well out from either bank stood four low arches—scarcely more than culverts, each filled by the stream to within a foot of the apex.
p. 374..0culverts = enclosed channels that carry runoff water beneath areas above the water
- Broadside on, the punt struck gently against two of the piers and stopped, pinned squarely across the mouth of one of the central culverts.
p. 374..3
- The rain echoed dismally up the culvert.
p. 375..2culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
- There was no gap between the punt and the dark mouth of the culvert.
p. 376..3
- Had they come over the common, among the shining wires, through the thunderstorm, the culverts on the great river, to die at the claws of General Woundwort?
p. 427..9culverts = enclosed channels that carry runoff water beneath areas above the water
Definition:
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(culvert) a large pipe or other enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath a road, railroad, or sidewalk