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Discover LudwigThe word "manhole" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to an opening in a street or pavement that provides access to underground utilities. Example: "The city workers lifted the manhole cover to inspect the sewer system." Alternatives include "access hole" or "utility hole."
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manhole
noun
A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations.
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Cuomo said the manhole cover through which the two men emerged in a street in Dannemora was secured with a steel lock and chains from underneath.
Someone threw a manhole cover through the window and stole hundreds of shirts.
He also said that the complicated escape operation, in which the two men cut holes in their steel cell walls and a long network of pipes leading out of the prison to a manhole cover in a public street, could have taken days to accomplish.
His work in China takes a similar tone: in "The Food Chain", paddy workers toil away in the cracks of a manhole cover on a Beijing street known for its all-night restaurants.
Suggest a manhole, and he'd plummet straight down it.
WATCHING the UN's Security Council trying to deal with Iraq is a bit like spotting a blind man on the other side of the street walking towards an open manhole.
If it is not about events such as a freak ballooning accident that killed 18 tourists, or the death of nine villagers who fell, one after another, into an open manhole, or a plague of locusts sweeping in from the Red Sea, it will surely be about something at least as grim: Egyptian politics.
Mr Zhang had spent time in quality-obsessed Germany, where he observed that even manhole covers were precisely made and numbered.
Only one van arrived, at 10am, and its driver had to be held at gunpoint to prevent him from driving off while the Jews were coming out of the manhole.After it seemed that no-one else was emerging from the manhole, Kazik told the van to move off.
Brutality and budgets in Indonesia Living in a manhole A nuclear fission Sent to the wrong Korea ReprintsHe may pull it off.
In Oregon, manufacturing's collapse has caused the loss of nearly 30,000 jobs in a year; those hit range from Freightliner, a maker of heavy lorries, to high-tech companies such as Intel and Fujitsu.Every part of the economy seems to have stepped into an open manhole at the same timeIn this section Nobody looking at the road Pop goes Seattle Vox populi, vox belli The green threat?
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