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/drˈeɪnədʒ/ /drˈeɪnɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Drainage n.

A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

(Engin.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.

(Surg.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.

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"Drainage" Quotes from Famous Books

... could probably be drained and converted into good grass land. Here I also found cranberry vines in a flourishing condition and their fruit. Three or four miles back from the coast at this point, lies a tract of several hundred acres of swamp grass land, which by drainage, would afford considerable pasturage. A narrow strip of grazing land, from five to fifteen rods in width, extends for about three miles along the seashore, eastward from near the mouth of the Hi-ellen River. Five or six miles south-west ...

— Official report of the exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands - for the government of British Columbia • Newton H. Chittenden

... food and wholesomer dwellings. Gotre and other maladies arising from insufficient diet have disappeared. Epidemics, I was assured, seldom work havoc in this valley; and though much remains to be done in the way of drainage and sanitation, the villages ...

— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... my pride in the Bridewell, thanks to you. It's tough on St. Louis to laundry you up stream this way, but maybe the worst of your heresies 'll be purified when they get that far.' You know the Chicago River runs up hill out of Lake Michigan through the drainage canal and into the St. Louis waterworks. Sure it does—most unnatural stream I ever ...

— Pardners • Rex Beach

... longest on sandy, sun-exposed (south and south-east aspect) slopes. The flowers produced by those growing on inclined ground are dearer and more esteemed than any raised on level land, being 50 per cent. richer in oil, and that of a stronger quality. This proves the advantage of thorough drainage. On the other hand, plantations at high altitudes yield less oil, which is of a character that readily congeals, from an insufficiency of summer heat. The districts lying adjacent to and in the mountains are sometimes visited by hard frosts, which destroy or greatly reduce the crop. ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various

... the Irish bogs. They expressed their entire conviction of the practicability of cultivating with profit an immense extent of land lying waste. In 1819, in 1823, in 1826, and in 1830, select committees inquired into and reported on drainage, reclamation of bogs and marshes, on roads, fisheries, emigration, and other schemes for giving employment to the redundant population that had been encouraged to increase and multiply in the most reckless manner, ...

— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin

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