Associations to the word «Culvert»

Wiktionary

CULVERT, noun. A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.
CULVERT, verb. To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.

Dictionary definition

CULVERT, noun. A transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats