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Meanings of manhole in inglés
The top opening to an underground utility vault used to house an access point for making connections, inspection, valve adjustments or performing maintenance on underground and buried public utility and other services.
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Examples for "utility hole"
Examples for "utility hole"
1
Each grasped a set of ankles, hauled the bodies into the cul-de-sac and dumped them down the utility hole.
2
More than 50 utility hole covers were swept away, and 49 roads were washed away.
1
The last place John wanted to be was in another confined space.
2
As much as the confined space would allow her, she kept rocking.
3
I love to be able to do something in a confined space.
4
He can be very dangerous to sit beside in a confined space.
5
The confined space was all that kept Gavin's men from being overwhelmed.
1
The child caught it, and thrusting it into his mouth wheeled about to the sewer hole.
2
Dean climbed up and then slipped in, feeling a little as if he were climbing down a sewer hole.
3
It broke loose from its tail like a lizard, and dived into the sewer hole, leaving Simon holding what looked like a long snake.
4
Aided by his son, he took the worker to the sewer hole, and forced sewage water into his mouth and made the man drink it.
5
"I lost me money; it dropped down into de sewer hole!"
1
On a cold, wet evening, myself and a water engineer stand peering into an inspection chamber on the footpath outside my house.
Usage of manhole in inglés
1
Sailing lights were turned off; the manhole cover was battened down securely.
2
At this moment the manhole cover of the conning tower was raised.
3
Move. He pointed into the depths revealed by the open manhole cover.
4
The soldiers were quite close when Barney lowered himself through the manhole.
5
A muddy automatic weapon was left inside the tunnel beneath the manhole.
6
He stands on a slightly raised manhole cover and surveys his territory.
7
The hand tightened its grip and started dragging her toward the manhole.
8
He looked into the half-open manhole, saw the ladder, and started down.
9
The drain grew smaller and seemed to slope upward after manhole twenty.
10
The edge of each manhole is stiffened by a welded iron ring.
11
The spring was about 70C and was near a planned sewer manhole.
12
Joel wishes there was a manhole cover in front of his feet.
13
He cautiously sent the probe topside again, up through the manhole-cover vent.
14
Joel would lift up the manhole cover and shout down to him.
15
Jake fell in a heap beside the manhole cover, gagging and retching.
16
Magdalena knocked frantically at the little manhole down by the Lech Gate.
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United States of America
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