'Spray drain' definitions:
Definition of 'Spray drain'
From: GCIDE
- Spray \Spray\ (spr[=a]), n. [Cf. Dan. sprag. See Sprig.]
- 1. A small shoot or branch; a twig. --Chaucer.
- Syn: sprig. [1913 Webster]
- The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A collective body of small branches, or cut flowers with long stems; as, the tree has a beautiful spray; many sprays were sent in condolence to teh funeral home. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- And from the trees did lop the needless spray. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Founding) (a) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold. (b) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- Spray drain (Agric.), a drain made by laying under earth the sprays or small branches of trees, which keep passages open. [1913 Webster]