Sewer

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: soÍžo'É™, IPA: /ˈsuːə/
• formerly enPR: syo͝oÉ™, IPA: /ˈsjÊŠÉ™/
• US enPR: soÍžoÉ™r, IPA: /ˈsuÉš/
• Homophones: suer

From Anglo-Norman sewere ("water-course"), from Old French sewiere ("overflow channel for a fishpond"), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria ("drain for carrying water off"), from Latin ex ("out of, from") with aquāria.

Noun

1. A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
• 2014-06-14, It's a gas, One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsjuːə/

From Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir ("find a seat for"), from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō ("attend to"), from ad ("to, towards, at") + sedeō ("sit").

Full definition of sewer

Noun

1. (now historical) A servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc.
• 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
• 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 287:His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: sō'É™, IPA: /ˈsəʊə/
• US enPR: sō'É™, IPA: /ˈsoÊŠÉ™/
• Homophones: sower
• Rhymes: -əʊə(r)

sew + -er

Noun

1. One who sews.
2. A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk.the apple-leaf sewer, Phoxopteris nubeculana

Synonyms

• (one who sews) sempster/sempstress man/woman, seamster/seamstress man/woman, tailor

Anagrams

• ewers, re-sew, resew, sweer