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7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway
originOrigin obscure, with a number of possible etymologies suggested: * a dialectal word, * a word related to the name of the now-forgotten inventor, * 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, * a derivation from an unrecorded Dutch word, possibly *coul-vaart, a combination of Dutch…
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Words from these letters
- culver 11
- curvet 11
- cruve 10
- curve 10
- cutler 8
- reluct 8
- lurve 8
- vertu 8
- cruel 7
- cruet 7
- culet 7
- curet 7