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gully trap en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand) A trap (preventing the return of gases) through which household drainage can flow to reach outside drains, or the structure in which this is housed.
    • They bung the tea leaves in the sink, instead of toddling out the back and emptying them on the maidenhair or in the gulley trap. 1990, Barry Humphries, The Life & Death of Sandy Stone, page 83:
    • Charlie Dabney subsided into an imperceptible chair, and somersaulted in the direction of the gulley-trap. He fell heavily. 1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 172:

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