Wilcox County was relatively young when the Civil War (1861-65) began, but its citizens supported the war effort by sending their sons and husbands to fight. Confederate president Jefferson Davis camped on May 8, 1865, at Abbeville during his flight through Wilcox County at the end of the war, two nights before his capture by Union forces in Irwinville.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Drain. drÄn, v.t. to draw off by degrees: to filter: to clear of water by drains: to make dry: to drink dry: to exhaust.âv.i. to flow off gradually.ân. a watercourse: a ditch: a sewer: (slang) a drink: exhausting expenditure.âadj.
drainpipe - a pipe through which liquid is carried away. waste pipe, drain. culvert - a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway. pipage, pipe, piping - a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. scupper - drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard. sewer, sewerage, cloaca - a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water. soil pipe - drain that conveys liquid waste from toilets, etc. trap - drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas.