| 单词 | mitre drain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmitre drain mitre drain n. Civil Engineering a transverse drain in or under a roadway. ΚΠ 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 97/2 Other drains are made under the roadway which, from their form, are termed cross mitre drains. Their plan is in shape like the letter V... The construction of mitre-drains is [etc.]. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1453/2 Miter-drain, the transverse drain in the metaling of a road. 1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) xiii. 322 The solution is..for the grader to continue its blading action while it turns into the mitre drain. < as lemmas |
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