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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
sewer1
 
SYLLABICATION:sew·er
PRONUNCIATION:  sr
NOUN: An artificial, usually underground conduit for carrying off sewage or rainwater.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English, from Anglo-Norman sewere, from Vulgar Latin *exaquria : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin aquria, feminine of aqurius, pertaining to water (from aqua, water; see akw-- in Appendix I).
 
 
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