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Webster 1913 Edition

Cunette

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Cu-nette′

(kū̍-nĕt′)

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Noun.

[F.]

(Fort.)

A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; – called also

cuvette

.

Definition 2025

cunette

cunette

English

Noun

cunette ‎(plural cunettes)

A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
- 1889, Charles Rogers, Intelligence Report of the Panama Canal, page 11:
  Nor was anything done at San Pablo except the cutting of two cunettes necessary for working with heavy machinery, and the projection of a plane for a passage under the Panama Railway, by which the excavations made at K. 35.700 could be carried to the banks of the Chagres.
- 1905, Sewerage, page 183:
  There is on each side of the entire length of the arching of the Senne a main sewer, which is divided into two distinct parts, the cunette and the vault.
- 1996, Building on Soft Soils, CUR Centre for Civil Engineering, page 164:
  In principle, cunettes are carried out with a view to substituting poor load bearing and highly compressible strata with sand with a view to a) reducing residual settlements and b) improving stability.

Italian

Noun

cunette m

plural of cunetta