| 单词 |
sewery |
| 释义 |
▪ I. ˈsewery, n. rare. [f. sewer n.2 + -y.] The office or apartment used by a sewer.
1851Turner Dom. Archit. I. 68 In household rolls of the thirteenth century the daily expenditure is almost always classed under the following heads; 1. The amount of bread, wine and beer supplied from the sewery and butlery. ▪ II. ˈsewery, a. [f. sewer n.1 + -y1.] Characteristic of sewers.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 390 The Fleet Ditch seems always to have had a sewery character. 1896Punch 1 Dec. 257/1 Some thought them [the smells] like Eau-de-Cologne, whilst their foes Denounced them as sickly and sewery. |

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