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The definition of culvert is a tunnel or a drain under a road or a railway that carries a stream or drainage from one side to the other.

(noun)

A tunnel under the Reading Railroad that a stream flows through is an example of a culvert.

Culvert is defined as to channel or direct a stream or drainage through a tunnel under a road or railway.

(verb)

When you build an enclosed tunnel under Reading Railroad to force a stream to pass underneath the railroad, this is an example of when you culvert the stream.

See culvert in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a conduit, esp. a drain, as a pipelike construction of stone, concrete, or metal, that passes under a road, railroad track, footpath, etc. or through an embankment

Origin: late 18th-c. < ?

See culvert in American Heritage Dictionary 4

cul·vert

noun

A sewer or drain crossing under a road or embankment.
a. The part of a road or embankment that passes over such a sewer or drain.
b. The channel or conduit for such a sewer or drain.

Origin: Origin unknown.

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