Definition of Pipe fitting

1. Noun. Fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together.

Exact synonyms: Pipefitting
Generic synonyms: Fitting
Specialized synonyms: Reducer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipe Fitting

pipe-opener
pipe-openers
pipe-smoker's cancer
pipe bomb
pipe bombs
pipe bone
pipe bowl
pipe clamp
pipe cleaner
pipe cleaners
pipe cutter
pipe down
pipe dream
pipe dreams
pipe fitter
pipe fitting (current term)
pipe in
pipe major
pipe of peace
pipe organ
pipe organs
pipe rack
pipe smoker
pipe snake
pipe stem cirrhosis
pipe tong
pipe tongs
pipe union
pipe up
pipe vine

Literary usage of Pipe fitting

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

1. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"PIPE-FITTING EQUIPMENT. (For a class of 12 men.) A pipe-threading machine is desirable but not absolutely necessary unless large sizes of pipe arc used. ..."

2. Heating and Ventilating Buildings: A Manual for Heating Engineers and Architects by Rolla Clinton Carpenter (1902)
"Suggestions for Pipe-fitting.—Certain suggestions are here made relating to the ... The skill required for pipe-fitting may seem to the novice to be easily ..."

3. Heating and Ventilating Buildings: A Manual for Heating Engineers and Architects by Rolla Clinton Carpenter (1909)
"Suggestions for Pipe-fitting.—Certain suggestions are here made relating to the ... The skill required for pipe-fitting may seem to the novice to be easily ..."

4. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1912)
"ERECTING SHOP WORK—pipe fitting. While the work of erecting pipes does not, strictly speaking, come under the head of machinist's work, still there are ..."

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