sewer

Meanings

Noun

• A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
• A servant attending at a meal who is responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes, etc.
• One who sews.
• A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

Verb

• To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

Related

Similar words

• sempster/sempstress , seamster/seamstress , tailor

Origin

• From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere, from Old French sewiere, from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria, from Latin ex + aquaria or from a root *exaquāre.
• From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir, from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō, from ad + sedeō.
• sew + -er