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Definition of Drainage system
1. Noun. A system of watercourses or drains for carrying off excess water.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drainage System
Literary usage of Drainage system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Investigation of Inappropriate Pollutant Entries Into Storm Drainage Systems by Robert Pitt (1993)
"These may include: • drainage system surveys (tests for specific pollutants,
visual inspections, TV drainage pipe inspections, and smoke and dye tests), ..."
2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"Believing that much permanent benefit would result in lowering the water-table
even a few feet, a new drainage system was installed in November of 1905. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"tinl part of a city's sewerage drainage system for the purpose of keeping it open
and unclog- ged by dirt, sand, or other foreign substances, so that it can ..."
4. Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains by Clarence Edward Dutton, Grove Karl Gilbert (1880)
"Such a drainage system is said to be antecedent to the structure. But if in the
latter case the displacements are .produced rapidly the drainage system will ..."
5. Local Government and Taxation in the United Kingdom: A Series of Essays Pub by Cobden Club (London, England), John Webb Probyn (1882)
"Drainage The arterial drainage system of London, extending over under new something
like a hundred and twenty square miles of area, ..."
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