Noun: culvert
| Singular | culvert |
| Plural | culverts |
Sample Sentences
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A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert. [1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 98:]
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After she left, I ran away for a day, and hid myself, solitary, in a culvert under the railway lines. [1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 167:]
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It was on the leisurely upswing when, 16 years after we bought our house, a woman driving a fancy S.U.V. jumped the culvert, plowed through the hedge, jumped the culvert again and sped off. [2024 July 15, Heidi Julavits, “I Put Up a Fence in Maine. Why Did It Cause Such a Fuss?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like culvert
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Origin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested:
2. * a dialectal word,
3. * a word related to the name of the now-forgotten inventor,
4. * 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,
5. * 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”). See: French Nouns '
couvert', Dutch Nouns '
vaart'.
Verbs referencing "culvert"
Swedish Nouns
kulvert.