French drain
French drain noun: a shallow trench, sometimes lined with tile or containing a perforated pipe, backfilled with gravel and then covered over, used to collect and channel runoff water.
Noun
French drain (plural French drains)
- A shallow trench, sometimes lined with tile or containing a perforated pipe, backfilled with gravel and then covered over, used to collect and channel runoff water.
- A gravel-filled corridor with a perforated pipe running through it that runs against the foundation footings of a building, used to collect ground water and drain it away from the building's interior.
- Synonyms:
- weeping tile, foundation drain, rubble drain
French drain meaning in Tamil
French drain in Tamil
- நிலத்தடி மண்சரளை வடிகால்
Synonyms of French drain
- weeping tile
- foundation drain
- rubble drain
Forms of French drain
| plural | French drains |
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Origin of French drain
Named after American inventor Henry F. French.
Questions about French drain
- What does French drain mean?
- French drain means a shallow trench, sometimes lined with tile or containing a perforated pipe, backfilled with gravel and then covered over, used to collect and channel runoff water.
- What is French drain in Tamil?
- French drain in Tamil is நிலத்தடி மண்சரளை வடிகால். See French drain meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is French drain?
- French drain is a noun.
- What is the plural of French drain?
- The plural of French drain is French drains.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: French drain (page history and authors); french drain (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.
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