TECa pipe that takes a stream under a road, railway line etc 〔道路、铁路等下面的〕排水渠,阴沟,涵洞
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culvert• She laughed a little because there was no room for his elbows, it was like making loveinside a culvert.• We came to this road, there was a culvert there, we crawled through there and went up the hill.• New culvertslikely will have to be placed in a new location, Douglas said.• He remembers when the same spotwashed out in 1950, but then the old culverts remained in place.• Later I discovered she was only pointing to an overflowculvert.• A smaller culvert, 30 metres in length, crosses beneath Lasswade Road.• He opened the throttle, blasting the motorcyclebroadside into the culvert.• He was about to take her arm and help her into the culvert but she neither needed nor wanted his help.