a hole, usually with a cover, through which a person may enter a sewer, drain, steam boiler, etc., especially one located in a city street.
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Until the sensor network was put in place, a pair of city workers in South Bend used to drive around once a week, lift up manhole covers, and peer down, using nothing but their eyes to estimate how fast the sewage was flowing.
Attaching the nodes to manhole covers meant maintenance crews could access them easily.
Hot crude and oily waste bubbled up from underground, filled an apartment building basement, oozed out of manhole covers and buckled sidewalks.
The man climbs out of a manhole, as if sneaking into her dream.
One of the primary reasons the FMCSA gave for the shutdown was the manhole cover incident.
From the modern chastity belt to a bag that disguises as a manhole, Soraya Roberts on the growing trend of protective fashion.
She also designed an emergency "manhole bag," a flat purse that could be thrown on the ground to double as a sewer.
The only escape available to him appears in the form of a manhole, through which he escapes underground.
I didn't see the open manhole that the workmen had figured would be all right at that time of night.
But the platform at the manhole entrance jutted diagonally below him, fifteen feet down and twelve along the bellying curve.
Then he began to cry, resting his head on his arms, that were crossed in front of the manhole of the kayak.
By the way, did you happen to notice whuther the slat top to that cistern o' hers was over the manhole?
A word of command—farewell to the bright blue sky overhead—the black manhole cover is replaced.