"Catch-Basin" is a word in ENGLISH

baang, báang v {1} [B3; c] plug up a hole. Sagbut ang nakabaang sa imburnal, Garbage has choked up the …

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as …

A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood …

A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callis describee …

The dlmlnudve of a sewer. Callis, Sew. (80,) 100. In modern law, an open ditch or conduit designed to allow …

In pleadlng. Unintelligible ; without sense or meaning, from the omission of material words, etc. Steph. Pl. 377. See Union …

A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., …

nawása n {1} acronym for the National Waterworks and Sewer-age Authority. {2} plain drinking water (humorous slang). Wà man tay …

A tract of land in the county of Kent, England, containing twenty-four thousand acres, governed by cer-tain ancient and equitable …

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.

One who sews, or stitches.

A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also …

A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf …