1 gen 1540 anni - sewer

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An artificial water-course which would carry water to a dam or drain marshy land of excess surface water, taking it off into a river or the sea. 1352 <i>Cum walliæ, fossata, gutteræ, seweræ, pontes, calceta et gurgites aquarum de Trent et Done</i>, Selby Abbey (YRS113/392); 1527 <i>als well the watter dame belonynge</i> [sic] <i>the milne as the watter sewer for the redy passaige of the watter to and frome the seid milne</i>, Bewerley (YRS140/212); 1540 <i>one close called the Vevers ... overflowed the moste parte all winter with water, charged with a sewer & lyenge in common pasture from Michalmas to Martynmas</i>, Selby Abbey (YRS13/349). As a channel for waste matter in a town it is on record from the mid-fifteenth century.

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