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Word Meanings - TILE-DRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.

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  • FURNISHMENT
    The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
  • DRAINE
    The missel thrush.
  • FURNISH
    Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
  • FURNISHER
    One who supplies or fits out.
  • DRAINTRAP
    See 5
  • DRAINPIPE
    A pipe used for carrying off surplus water.
  • DRAINTILE
    A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.
  • DRAINAGE
    The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. 4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham. (more info) 1. A draining; a gradual
  • DRAINABLE
    Capable of being drained.
  • DRAIN
    1. To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent. Bacon. But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
  • DRAINING
    The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. Draining tile. Same as Draintile.
  • DRAINER
    One who, or that which, drains.
  • TILESEED
    Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof.
  • TILESTONE
    A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian. 2. A tile of stone.
  • WATER DRAIN
    A drain or channel for draining off water.
  • TOP-DRAINING
    The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
  • TOP-DRAIN
    To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
  • WELLDRAIN
    To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.
  • DISFURNISH
    To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
  • CATCHDRAIN
    A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
  • UNDERDRAIN
    An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
  • TILE-DRAIN
    To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
  • REFURNISHMENT
    The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
  • GENTILESSE
    Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. Chaucer.
  • BEAUTILESS
    Destitute of beauty. Hammond.
  • UNFURNISH
    To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.
  • UNDERFURNISH
    To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

 

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