[Tagging] Drain vs ditch

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Dictionary.com usually provides definitions in American English, so it
wouldn’t be a good source.

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 8:35 AM Sergio Manzi <smz at smz.it> wrote:

> Please point me to a dictionary defining "drain" as a "lined ditch" or in
> any way stating that a drain must be lined, because I tried and I failed.
>
> Best I found is in dictionary.com  that (*under *"*Physical Geography*")
> define it as
>
>    1. an artificial watercourse, as a ditch or trench.
>    2. a natural watercourse modified to increase its flow of water.
>
>
> On 2019-02-01 23:46, Paul Allen wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 22:43, Sergio Manzi <smz at smz.it> wrote:
>
>> So, how do you tag drains which are not lined?
>>
>
> Ditch.   Because, physically, that's what it is.
>
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> Paul
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