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Definition of Sewer water

1. Noun. Water mixed with waste matter.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sewer Water

Literary usage of Sewer water

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Practical Hygiene by Edmund Alexander Parkes (1887)
"If these conditions are fulfilled, what reason is there for keeping out of the sewer water (which must, under any circumstance of urban life, ..."

2. A Manual of Practical Hygiene by Edmund Alexander Parkes (1878)
"The sewer water itself is used fotte ing, being dammed up at one point hy a ... DISPOSAL OF THE sewer water. The great engineering skill now available in ..."

3. First [and Second] Report [s] of the Commissioners for Inquiring Into the by Walter Francis Scott Buccleuch (1845)
"The sewer-water coming from a section of the Old Town, is discharged into a ... From these tanks or settling ponds the sewer-water flows off at the surface ..."

4. The California Earthquake of 1906 by John Casper Branner, Charles Derleth, Grove Karl Gilbert, Stephen Taber, Fusakichi Ōmori, Harold Wellman Fairbanks, Mary Hunter Austin (1907)
"... Seventeenth Streets Showing Rupture of Car Tracks, Sewer, Water and Cas Pipes. around it, and those that must traverse filled areas should be of riveted ..."

5. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1846)
"The case would be different were the sewer water held back by mechanical means, until there was a sufficient fall of tide in the river; but it is not so—the ..."

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