culvert

== English == === Etymology === Origin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested: a dialectal word, a word related to the name of the now-forgotten inventor, a derivation from French couvert (“covered”), although couvert is not used in this sense and the French translation of culvert is ponceau or buse de drainage, a derivation from an unrecorded Dutch word, possibly *coul-vaart, a combination of Dutch coul-, from French couler (“to flow”), and Dutch vaart (“a trip by boat, a canal”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkʌlvə(ɹ)t/ === Noun === culvert (plural culverts) A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === culvert (third-person singular simple present culverts, present participle culverting, simple past and past participle culverted) (transitive, intransitive) To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert. === References === == Middle English == === Alternative forms === colwarde, culvard, culvart, kilvarde === Etymology === From Old French colvert, from Late Latin collībertus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkulvɛrt/, /ˈkulward/ === Adjective === culvert vile, nefarious ==== References ==== “culvert, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.