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catch basin

a sievelike device at the entrance to a sewer to stop matter that could block up the sewer

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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