Definition of manhole
:a hole through which one may go especially to gain access to an underground or enclosed structure
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From Sept. 4 to Sept. 8, 19th Street west of Central Avenue will be completely closed for the setting of a new manhole and the placing of a storm sewer.
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Then the moon slid over the sun like a manhole cover.
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The original incident was a 3:36 p.m. call for smoldering manhole in the 200 block of West Gay Street.
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That’s a bowl approximately the size of manhole cover filled with peanut butter ice cream, peanut brittle, Reese’s peanut butter cups, a slice of chocolate peanut butter pie, whipped cream, peanut butter sauce and Reese’s pieces.
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The Detroit Free Press reached out to DTE to find out how many manhole cover explosions happen each year but have yet to hear back.
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The game lets players push a cartoon Trump off a rocky precipice, into a volcano, down a New York manhole or into the mouth of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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The City of Waukesha has also received multiple reports of manhole covers being displaced throughout the city, resulting in water gushing up, the weather service said.
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The hotel logo riffs on the hexagonal design of the old-school NOPSI manhole covers.
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First Known Use of manhole
1769
MANHOLE Defined for English Language Learners
manhole
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Definition of manhole for English Language Learners
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: a covered hole in a street that a person can go down into to do work under the street
MANHOLE Defined for Kids
manhole
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man·hole
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Definition of manhole for Students
:a covered hole (as in a street) large enough to let a person pass through
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