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Drainage system   /drˈeɪnədʒ sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Drainage system

noun
1.
A system of watercourses or drains for carrying off excess water.






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"Drainage system" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been the work of Phoenicians or Mongols several thousand years ago. Certainly against Mr. McIver's theory, that the Temple was the work of Bantus a few hundred years ago, I think we may put the fact that an admirable drainage system has been unearthed;—drainage systems of any kind being more or less unknown to black races of a low order. In the meantime, we can but await fresh clues, which may put us upon the track of proofs, and hope that the day is not very ...
— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page



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