# sewer
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so͞o'ə, IPA: /ˈs(j)uːə/
* (General American) enPR: so͞oər, IPA: /ˈsuɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophone: suer
* Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: sew‧er

#### Noun

sewer (plural sewers)
* A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
    open sewers
** 2014 June 14, “It’s a gas”, in The Economist‎, volume 411, number 8891, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-06-12:One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

##### Derived terms

* car sewer
* common sewer
* leaf sewer
* sewer fly
* sewer gas
* sewer rat
* sewer service
* sewer slide
* sewer socialism
* storm sewer

##### Translations
#### Verb

sewer (third-person singular simple present sewers, present participle sewering, simple past and past participle sewered)
* (transitive) To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English seware, seuere, from Anglo-Norman asseour, from Old French asseoir (“find a seat for”), from Latin assidēre, present active participle of assideō (“attend to”), from ad (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so͞o'ə, IPA: /ˈs(j)uːə/
* (General American) enPR: so͞oər, IPA: /ˈsuɚ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: sew‧er

#### Noun

sewer (plural sewers)
* (historical) An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.
** 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 116–117:While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
** 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 287:
    His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.

### Etymology 3

sew +‎ -er

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sō'ə, IPA: /ˈsəʊə/
* (US) enPR: sō'ər, IPA: /ˈsoʊɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: sower
* Rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: sew‧er

#### Noun

sewer (plural sewers)
* One who sews.
** 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 131–132: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 for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goods.
* A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.
    the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

##### Synonyms

* (one who sews): sempster/sempstress (man/woman), seamster/seamstress (man/woman), tailor, sewist

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* resew, re-sew, ewers, weres, Weser, weers, sweer, ewres, Weers, Ewers

## Javanese
### Romanization

sewer
* Alternative spelling of sèwèr. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦮꦺꦂ

## Middle English
### Verb

sewer
* Alternative form of suren