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cloaca

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6 lettersPronunciation /kləʊˈeɪ.kə/Part of speech nounSorted aaccloStarts with CEnds with A0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), related to cluō (“cleanse; purge”), but the derivation is uncertain.

Used in a sentence

  • The Thames, polluted with the filthy effusions of the cloacae.
  • […] that tremendous cloaca of Pauperism […]
  • After working an hour, I began to speculate on the distance one had to go before the cloaca was reached the chances we had of missing it altogether.

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