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/drˈeɪnədʒ/ /drˈeɪnɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Drainage n.

A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

(Engin.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.

(Surg.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.

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Etymology of 'Drainage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drainage" Quotes from Famous Books

... instances walls have been built round these concessions, the gateways in which can be bolted and barred at night to keep out the natives, a good system of drainage introduced, wide roads laid out and lighted, public seats placed in pleasant spots facing the water, trees planted, palatial houses built with gardens attached, a church constructed, clubs founded, billiard-tables and other insignia ...

— Life and sport in China - Second Edition • Oliver G. Ready

... great mural mass of Kinchinjhow. This girdle of mountains encloses the head waters of the Lachoong, which rises in countless streams from its perpetual snows, glaciers, and small lakes: its north drainage is to the Cholamoo lakes in Tibet; in which is the source of the Lachen, which flows round the north base of Kinchinjhow to ...

— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... people filled all available space. There was little attention to drainage or sanitary regulations. An open invitation was given to pestilence, and the invited enemy came. For some years before the plague had been at its deadly work in Egypt and Libya, and in parts of Persian Asia. Then it made ...

— Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... out from Riberac to cross that tract of country between the Dronne and the Isle which is known as the Double. It is still one of the most forlorn wildernesses in all France; but, like the Camargue, it has been much changed of late years by drainage and cultivation, and is destined to become productive and prosperous. For incalculable centuries it had remained a baneful solitude, overgrown with virgin forest, except in the hollows between the low hills, which succeed one another like the undulations of the sea; and here, almost ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... narrative—is a high, wind-swept region of niggerhead and swamp, the catch-basin of the South Fork of the Koyukuk River. The trail descends one of its southern draws, follows up the main valley awhile, crosses it, and leaves by one of its northern draws to pass over the mountains that separate its drainage from the main fork of the Koyukuk. The cold had given place to wind, and though the gale did not approach the fierceness of last year's storm, it gave great trouble in following the track. These ...

— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck

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