culvert

[ kuhl-vert ]

/ ˈkʌl vərt /

a drain or channel crossing under a road, sidewalk, etc.; sewer; conduit.

Origin of culvert

First recorded in 1765–75; origin uncertain

She was driving to meet a reporter waiting in an Oklahoma City motel when she crashed into the concrete wing wall of a culvert.

Edward Snowden’s Whistleblowing Saga Mirrors the Karen Silkwood Case |Richard Rashke |July 2, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
A culvert packed with explosives presents a particularly dangerous and challenging problem.

Remember the Living |Brian Castner |May 26, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
It was the culvert, of course; it had broken down, and lucky I was that the ditch underneath was shallow.

Over Prairie Trails |Frederick Philip Grove
Houses were demolished, swept from their foundations and carried in the flood to a culvert near the town.

The Johnstown Horror |James Herbert Walker

There were the hatches, there was the culvert; they could see the pebbly bed of the stream through the pellucid water.

Life's Little Ironies |Thomas Hardy
From each mixer a track led out over the culvert form and a track along the top of this form ran the full length of the culvert.

Concrete Construction |Halbert P. Gillette
This is to prevent the end of the culvert from becoming choked with earth and to retain the roadway at the culvert.

American Rural Highways |T. R. Agg

culvert

/ (ˈkʌlvət) /

a drain or covered channel that crosses under a road, railway, etc

a channel for an electric cable

a tunnel through which water is pumped into or out of a dry dock

C18: of unknown origin