top-drain

English

Etymology

top +‎ drain

Verb

top-drain (third-person singular simple present top-drains, present participle top-draining, simple past and past participle top-drained)

  1. (transitive) To drain the surface of (a field, farm, etc.).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for top-drain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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