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sewerage|ˈs(j)uːərɪdʒ|
[f. sewer n.1 + -age.]
1. Drainage by means of sewers; a method or system of draining by sewers.
1834Rep. Sel. Comm. Metrop. Sewers 149 The tenantry are paying sewer-rates; they never have enjoyed sewerage. Ibid. 150 To prepare a sewerage and manage it themselves. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 317/2 How imperfectly the advantages of good sewerage are appreciated. 1892T. B. F. Eminson Epid. Pneumonia 12 Good sewerage will, I trust, banish this disease as effectually.
attrib.1848Act 11 & 12 Vict. c. 112 §34 The Limits of such Sewerage Districts. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. x. 57 Glazed sewerage-pipes. 1865Times 5 Apr. 3/1 The opening..of the great sewerage works.
b. The carrying away of refuse.
1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. v. 246 The hole [in the altar rock] is an aperture for the sewerage of the blood of victims.
2. concr. Sewers collectively; the system of sewers belonging to a particular locality.
1834Rep. Sel. Comm. Metrop. Sewers 150, I have seen a programme of the street; I think that is the position in which the sewerage is. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 389 Our arched and subterraneous sewerage. 1889Gunter That Frenchman v. 46 Whose foul-smelling gutters have been replaced by under-ground sewerage.
3. Sewage.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 383 Which forms a part of the street mud..of the scavenger's cart, rather than of the sewerage. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 182 The Tiber..enriched with city sewerage. 1900Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) June 207 To carry sewerage of Chicago toward the Mississippi river.
b. fig. Moral filth or garbage.
1859Meredith R. Feverel xl, [She] poured a little social sewerage into his ears. 1868Swinburne Blake 131 The weltering sewerage of Aphra's unreadable and unutterable plays. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. vi. 230 The foulest depths of literary sewerage. |