culvertとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Origin obscure.^[1] A number of possible etymologies have been suggested including

1. a dialectal word,
2. a word related to the name of the now-forgotten inventor,^[1]
3. 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,
4. 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”).

名詞

culvert (複数形 culverts)

1. A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91

     A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert.

   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 167

     After she left, I ran away for a day, and hid myself, solitary, in a culvert under the railway lines.

動詞

culvert (三人称単数 現在形 culverts, 現在分詞 culverting, 過去形および過去分詞形 culverted)

1. To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert.

参照