cuniculusn.
/kjuːˈnɪkjʊləs/ 1. A burrow, underground passage, or mine; in Roman Archaeology applied to the ancient ‘cunicular’ drains of Latium and Southern Etruria.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer
cockey1390
gutterc1440
soughc1440
sew1475
withdraught1493
sink1499
syre1513
closet1531
draught1533
vault1533
drain1552
fleet1583
issue1588
drainer1598
guzzle1598
shore1598
sewer1609
vennel1641
cloaca1656
cuniculus1670
pend1817
thurrock1847
sewer line1977
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage
gutteringc1420
strand1565
sewaging1610
thorough-draining1669
cuniculus1670
French drain1738
riggot?1746
bush-draining1748
surface drain1765
land-drain1767
pipe-draining1776
surface draining1777
fox1784
surface drainage1796
mole drain1804
soughing1808
acequia1811
well-draining1818
tile-draining1830
wedge-draining?1830
plug-draining1833
land-drainage1841
land-draining1841
mole-draining1842
trough gutter1856
mole-ditching1860
mole drainage1860
tile-drainagea1865
well point1867
karez1875
storm sewer1887
moling1943
tiling1943
storm drain1960
1670 E. Brown in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1196 The water..falls no lower..passeth away through a Cuniculus made on purpose, through which both this and the other water..do run out together at the foot of an Hill.
1693 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (ed. 2) ii. v. 204 Forced to seek passage where it finds least resistance through the lateral Cuniculi.
2. Pathology. The burrow of the itch-insect.
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1882 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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