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air pipe

NOUN
ventilating pipe
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Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

So we find growing up in the walls of this air pipe, cells which turn themselves into rings of gristle, or cartilage.

From A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson

As Harding said later: "I felt as though I was in a drift on the 2,800-foot level, into which no air pipe had been carried."

From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin

Air Pipe.—The diver’s air pipe is of a flexible, non-collapsible description, being made of alternate layers of strong canvas and vulcanized india-rubber, with steel or hard drawn metal wire embedded.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

The tank should also be fitted with a compressed air pipe, bent in the form of a loop.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford




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