Meaning

1 senses

  1. To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. The culvert was clogged with debris.

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  2. The culvert empties out behind my house.

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  3. We installed a new culvert to improve drainage.

    deWir haben eine neue Dole verlegt, um die Entwässerung zu verbessern. — Yorwba

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  4. Tom crawled through the culvert.

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Origin

Origin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested:

Origin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested:

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Forms

culverts, culverting, culverted, culverted
Base formculvert · to culvert
3rd person singularculverts
Present participleculverting
Past simpleculverted
Past participleculverted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyculvert
he, she, itculverts

Past simpleLesson

all personsculverted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave culverted
he, she, ithas culverted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill culvert

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
culturalB1culturallyB2cultureA1cumbersome

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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