Word.ws English Dictionary

catch-basins

catch-basins is the plural of catch-basin.

Meaning of catch-basin

Noun

catch-basin (plural catch-basins)

  1. A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matter that would not pass readily through the sewer.
    • There has been expended, during the year, in the three districts, for repairs of sewers and catch basins, for altering man holes and catch basin covers to suit changes of grade of the streets[…]1862, Chicago City, Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the Common Council

Questions about catch-basins

What is catch-basins the plural of?
Catch-basins is the plural of catch-basin.

Words near catch-basins in the dictionary

  1. catch-allism
  2. catch-alls
  3. catch-as-catch-can
  4. catch-ball
  5. catch-basin
  6. catch-basins
  7. catch-breath
  8. catch-breaths
  9. catch-coldy
  10. catch-dog
  11. catch-meadow

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: catch-basins (page history and authors); catch-basin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “catch-basins.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/catch-basins. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.