All fosse synonyms

noun fosse

• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• eaves — Usually, eaves. the overhanging lower edge of a roof.
• duct — any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
• tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
• dike — a contemptuous term used to refer to a lesbian.
• pipe — a large cask, of varying capacity, especially for wine or oil.
• sewer — a former household officer or head servant in charge of the service of the table.
• culvert — A culvert is a water pipe or sewer that crosses under a road or railway.
• gorge — to swallow, especially greedily.
• pit — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
• foxhole — a small pit, usually for one or two soldiers, dug as a shelter in a battle area.
• waterway — a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
• conduit — A conduit is a small tunnel, pipe, or channel through which water or electrical wires go.
• funnel — a cone-shaped utensil with a tube at the apex for conducting liquid or other substance through a small opening, as into a bottle, jug, or the like.
• drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
• gully — a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
• spout — to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
• trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
• sluice — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
• trough — a long, narrow, open receptacle, usually boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.
• moat — a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
• channel — A channel is a television station.
• watercourse — a stream of water, as a river or brook.
• runnel — a small stream; brook; rivulet.
• canal — A canal is a long, narrow stretch of water that has been made for boats to travel along or to bring water to a particular area.
• rut — the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• gutter — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
• dugout — a boat made by hollowing out a log.
• hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
• arroyo — An arroyo is a dry stream bed with steep sides.
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• drill — a large, baboonlike monkey, Mandrillus leucophaeus, of western Africa, similar to the related mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored: now endangered.
• gulch — a deep, narrow ravine, especially one marking the course of a stream or torrent.
• main — chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• furrow — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
• earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
• sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
• entrenchment — The process of entrenching or something which entrenches.
• excavation — The action of excavating something, esp. an archaeological site.