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What is a manhole?

What is a manhole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations.
  2. A hole providing access to the inside of a boiler, tank etc.
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Like in a car engine, the gas released from a manhole explosion could push on a piston and turn a crankshaft.
A mother is recovering at home after plunging six feet into the ground after a manhole collapsed beneath her.
This meant that a milkman who was injured by a defective manhole cover could not sue the owner of the land over which the right of way passed.
Three years ago, three serious offenders escaped after throwing a loose manhole cover through a fence during exercise.
It's rusty water, leaking from conduit lines beneath a manhole cover on Riggs Road.
It was circular and about seven feet in diameter, like a giant manhole cover.

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