Cc: Conduit

n

1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a pipe or channel for carrying a fluid

2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a rigid tube or duct for carrying and protecting electrical wires or cables

3. an agency or means of access, communication, etc.

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany a water-transporting element in a plant; a xylem vessel or a tracheid

5. a rare word for fountain

[from Old French, from Medieval Latin conductus channel, aqueduct, from Latin condūcere to lead, conduce]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

Ww: Where You From Buddy Resteraunts

But Franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather national advertising. I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the country roads. Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the place they did thirty years ago.
Heat-Moon, William Blue Highways (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1991), 16.