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单词 catch-pit
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catch-pit
catch-pit n. a large chamber (or in earlier use, a pit) designed to catch sediment or debris, esp. one which forms part of a drainage or sewage system; cf. catch basin n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage > pits
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soakway1956
1811 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 25 May Large quantities of the best sea manure may be had from catch-pits close under the borders of the estate.
1848 Morning Chron. 18 Nov. Preventing gravel and sand from entering the sewer, by means of a grating having smaller apertures, and a catch pit, from which such substances might be removed.
1902 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 147 87 This catch-pit is capable of holding 52 tons of sewage-sludge, and it is cleaned on an average once in every 2 months.
2017 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 22 Dec. 3513 service requests for repairs to catchpits..for missing or dislodged grates and..broken catchpit grates, frames or backing plates.
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