manhole cover

1. 1.

   a flush iron cover for a manhole (as in a street)

   Broadertop

   Part ofmanhole

Questions about manhole cover

What does manhole cover mean?

manhole cover means "a flush iron cover for a manhole (as in a street)".

Is manhole cover a common word?

manhole cover is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.