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Manhole cover   /mˈænhˌoʊl kˈəvər/   Listen
Manhole cover

noun
1.
A flush iron cover for a manhole (as in a street).






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"Manhole cover" Quotes from Famous Books



... controls my patent, reversible steam-release. What happens? Why, the tube is forced upward and the elevator rises. I let out some of the steam—and the tube sinks down into the ground! That iron plate which you see is the manhole cover of the tube, as it were—it corresponds, of course, to ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin



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