sewer

A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

• There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.

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

An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.historical

• His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.

One who sews.

• Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay fo

A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

• the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana