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Definition of Drainers
1. drainer [n] - See also: drainer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drainers
Literary usage of Drainers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A practical treatise on the manufacture of paper in all its branches by Carl Hofmann (1873)
"Construction of drainers.—The foundations of these drainers, and especially of
their side-walls, must be solid and uniform, as the walls must crack if they ..."
2. The Water Supply, Sewerage and Plumbing of Modern City Buildings by William Paul Gerhard (1909)
"Cellar drainers. —.When small quantities of clean subsoil water are to be removed
by lifting them up to the higher sewer level, simple cellar drainers are ..."
3. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid by Georg Lunge (1880)
"If the latter is divided into two compartments, the drainers must be divided in
like manner, so as to keep the strong and the weak salt apart. ..."
4. Standard Practical Plumbing: An Exhaustive Treatise on All Branches of by Robert Macy Starbuck (1910)
"CHAPTER XTIT FLOOR DRAINS, YARD DRAINS, CELLAR drainers, RAIN LEADERS, ETC.
THE subject of floor drains pertains more especially to large work of a public ..."
5. Yorkshire: An Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of by John Wainwright (1829)
"This decree had a considerable effect on the provisions of the late enclosure.
A LIST OF THE FIRST drainers, AND OTHERS, THAT CAME OVER FROM DUTCH. ..."
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