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A ditcher; a drain digger. [Prov. Eng.]

l to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight. -- Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical tube. -- Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler, containing the flues. -- Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity. -- Barrel organ, an instru…

A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.

The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.

or light. See Blank door or window, under Blank, a. -- Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. Knight. -- Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead. -- Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one th…

To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

rtificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

, or alters, a public deed. -- Counter distinction, contradistinction. [Obs.] -- Counter drain, a drain at the foot of the embankment of a canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may soak through. -- Counter extension (Surg.), the fixation of the upper part of a limb, while extension is practiced on the…

A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.

in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

The drain on the land side of a sea embankment. Knight.

[Obs.] For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains. Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor.

To drain by a dike or ditch.

A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

A sink or drain; a privy. Shak. Matt. xv. 17. (c) pl. (Med.)