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Catch-basin

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Catch´-ba`sin
n.1.A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.


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Catch-basin inserts, Phase 1: 14,000 inserts and screens over storm drains to catch trash -- $17 million.
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We are not speaking here of a profound religious revelation" but of "a catch-basin of religious flotsam and jetsam, a vast undigested (and largely indigestible) pudding of ideas, beliefs, feelings, and practices that appeals largely to those who no longer possess, or who have lost, the discerning eye that orthodoxy demands.
 
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