Definition of Steam pipe

1. Noun. A pipe conducting steam.

Exact synonyms: Steam Line
Generic synonyms: Pipage, Pipe, Piping

Lexicographical Neighbors of Steam Pipe

steam engine
steam engines
steam fitting
steam hammer
steam hammers
steam heat
steam heater
steam heaters
steam heating
steam iron
steam irons
steam line
steam locomotive
steam locomotives
steam organ
steam pipe (current term)
steam power
steam radio
steam roller
steam rollers
steam room
steam ship
steam ships
steam shovel
steam shovels
steam table
steam train
steam trains
steam tunnel
steam tunnels

Literary usage of Steam pipe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The valve inserted in the steam-pipe connecting the boiler with the injector. ... See- steam pipe. TENDER.— The carriage coupled to the back end of the ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"It further appears that the steam pipe was of good material, as good as new, A No. 1, and properly Joined together, put down at the point of the accident In ..."

3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Traveling Engineers' Association, Canadian School Trustees' Association (1896)
"He therefore by means of the same steam pipe charges that tallow pipe with a boiler pressure the same from the lubricator down to the top of the steam chest ..."

4. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1884)
"IN making the trial of steam-pipe coverings described in the former paper, the only place available was a room occupied with machinery ; and as the ..."

5. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference Book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"The amount of loss by condensation in a steam-pipe carried down a deep mine-shaft has been ascertained by actual practice at the ..."

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