pipe-drainv.
/ˈpʌɪpdreɪn/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌdreɪn/ Now rare (chiefly historical).
transitive. To provide (land, a house, etc.) with pipe drains; to drain (land) with a system of pipes. Chiefly in passive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > ditch [verb (transitive)] > drain otherwise
sewer1565
run1665
land-drain1767
pipe-drain1796
sough1797
mole-drain1844
tile-drain1844
well point1867
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties (ed. 2) I. 144 Having occasion to make some additional drains, in a ground which had been pipe-drained, some ten or twelve years.
1852 Househ. Words 11 Dec. 291/2 Upwards of eighteen thousand houses have been pipe-drained.
1875 W. H. Corfield Sewerage & Sewage Utilization 100 The land has been pipe-drained at a depth of less than 7 feet, and the pipes are concentrated at the lowest corner.
1907 E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock Pasture & Meadow Anal. 4 A soil that has been pipe drained for wheat-growing.
1930 Jrnl. Ministry Agric. Nov. 825 There is nothing to indicate..whether the land is pipe-drained or not.
1939 Times 29 May 15/5 In the middle of last century thousands of acres were pipe drained, when farming was a profitable occupation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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