A very shallow drain set into a road or other surface.
the kangaroo jumped over the table drain straight into my front wheel
Example sentencesExamples
- Once you lose control altogether and slide into the table drain beside the road you are exposing your vehicle to much wetter and deeper mud in the drain.
- I drove in the table drains as much as possible, avoiding the crown of the road and its teeth-rattling corrugations.
- Most of Australia's rural road network is in relatively easy terrain with ample road reserve, and in such conditions flat table drains can be readily provided.
- Seed dispersal through canola dribbling off the back of a truck and growing in table drains will have an impact.
- Increased efforts should be focused on improved maintenance of roadside drainage structures, such as table drains and cut-offs.
- Further works completed to date have been on the existing drainage network and include cleaning out of open table drains and installation of a new culvert.