(n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.
Example Sentences:
(1) I went to the US point of arrival and opened the manhole they come up through: it was heavily piped, dark, uninteresting.
(2) The easiest thing to do would have been to get a manhole cover and record the real thing, but in those days location recording was considered to be too hard in New York City, so I had to do it in the studio,” said Lievsay.
(3) When entering manholes, employees must adhere strictly to all safety rules, such as the testing of the air before entry, ventilation of the air spaces, and the presence of a standby rescue worker.
(4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
(5) It was a cursory, four-paragraph news story: the Times of India last October reported the case of four Indian workers who were killed while cleaning manholes in Doha.
(6) But somewhere between the non-coast guard approved rubber duckie floatation device and open manholes there is a happy middle ground.
(7) BT's fibre to the remote node (FTTRn) system brings optic fibre cables from the local telephone exchange to the street, where a small box will be attached to a telegraph pole, fixed to a wall or sunk into a manhole.
(8) If we hadn't discovered it in time, raw sewage could have started spurting out of manholes across the whole of Kingston.
(9) Residents say Carlos was trying to unclog a manhole and was carried by the force of the current and debris.
(10) The council also had to be invoked in LN-C's case because it had concreted over relevant manhole covers and she now has a working line.
(11) In May 2007 a manhole at Dounreay in northern Scotland was found to be contaminated with plutonium.
(12) One of the team tells me the furthest he had ever travelled underground away from a manhole or other exit was 600m.
(13) All along the side of this road at regular intervals were these manholes for individual people that had thick straw lids that you pull over to protect you from the bombs and the shrapnel.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Manhole covers, jam and allotments: Jeremy Corbyn on The One Show This is the party, after all, that suddenly announced the retirement age for 2.6 million women would jump from 60 to 66.
(15) The diagnosis of acute stagnant air syndrome for this type of accident is introduced herein, to alert industrial concerns and the medical professions about the existence of this occupational hazard confronting individuals who work in confined and poorly ventilated manholes.
(16) The American public doesn't respond to the bra burners, the fighters, the women who insist on calling manhole covers 'people-hole covers'.
(17) It is suggested that a simple locking device, similar to that employed on manhole covers, would eliminate this type of injury.
(18) queries his 13-year-old leading man, who then questions the position of the manhole cover.
(19) Come February, there may be a new name on the manhole cover, but it’ll still be the same sewer.
(20) First, he had an audition of sorts: Scorsese gave him a bit of film and said, “See what you can do with that.” It was a clip – later edited out of the movie – of Griffin Dunne crawling up out of a manhole, and they needed a sound for the scraping of the manhole cover as Dunne shoved it aside.
Manway
Definition:
(n.) A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through.