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Definition of Drainpipes
1. drainpipe [n] - See also: drainpipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drainpipes
Literary usage of Drainpipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Human Mechanism: Its Physiology and Hygiene and the Sanitation of Its by Theodore Hough, William Thompson Sedgwick (1906)
"If, in addition, the main drainpipes are provided with vents to allow the escape
of any gases accumulated in the pipes, the essentials of sanitary plumbing ..."
2. Lowell, a City of Spindles by Lowell (Mass.). Trades and Labor Council (1900)
"drainpipes shall be carried above the roof open and undiminished in size, ...
All drainpipes shall be exposed to sight where practicable within the building ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"... and cut down the hills facing the gully, filled in over the drainpipes, and
also raised the grade of the street in front of Mrs. Wells' residence above ..."
4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1888)
"Sewer-air is defined as including the air of house drainpipes, privy-vaults,
cesspools, and other imperfectly vea- tilated places containing decomposing ..."
5. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1902)
"Heilig testified that drainpipes are usually threaded through a nut on the ...
Lacy, a witness for the defendant, says that drainpipes, when in proper ..."
6. Modern Methods of Water Purification by John Don, John Chisholm (1913)
"6) represents an elevation of an ordinary filter in section, with gravels below,
and drainpipes (a, b) at intervals along the bottom. ..."
7. Lectures on Some of the Physical Properties of Soil by Robert Warington (1900)
"The lower ends of these drainpipes are uncovered, so that samples of the drainage
waters can be at any time obtained. The soil, as elsewhere at Rothamsted, ..."
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