Complete Definition of "culvert"

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  1. A channel for the draining of water; transverse drain.
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1922, w:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf, w:Jacob's Room|Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91

1996, w:Janette Turner Hospital|Janette Turner Hospital, w:Oyster (novel)|Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 167
:After she left, I ran away for a day, and hid myself, solitary, in a culvert under the railway lines.

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