sealing-water

Updated: May 6, 2025

Then, too, the sealing-water of the trap readily absorbs any foul gases presented at its outer end, toward the soil-pipe, and gives it off in an unchanged condition at the inner or house end. Such traps retard, but do not prevent, the entrance of sewer gases into the house.

George E. (George Edwin) Waring - Village Improvements and Farm Villages