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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An exhaustpipe; the pipe through which steam escapes from an engine or a blow-off valve.

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Examples

  • The boilers of the Caucasus were under full pressure; a slight smoke issued from its funnel, whilst the end of the escape-pipe and the lids of the valves were crowned with white vapor.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • There is a small steam-engine at one side, with an escape-pipe and valve projecting into the Circus, and a bundle of parti-coloured stuff is fluttering overhead opposite.

    Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892 Various

  • Thus he dreamed, and thus he trod the fairy ground of imagination, nor heeded the creaking timbers and the increasing rapidity of the puffs from the escape-pipe.

    Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

  • The boilers of the Caucasus were under full pressure; a slight smoke issued from its funnel, whilst the end of the escape-pipe and the lids of the valves were crowned with white vapor.

    Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar 1911

  • The throb of the engine was quicker than before, and when a jet of steam blew away from the escape-pipe Clare imagined that he meant to lose no time.

    Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

  • The escape-pipe was led aft into the wheel-house, so as to deaden the noise; and hose was attached to the boilers ready to scald any Confederates that tried to board.

    Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • The absence of vent, of any escape-pipe for the feelings, is always dangerous.

    Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900

  • The absence of vent, of any escape-pipe for the feelings, is always dangerous.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Silent and self-contained as he was, he had one confidante at the opposite end of the earth, one escape-pipe in his pen.

    Stingaree 1893

  • Great place for echoes: while our steamer was tied at the wharf at Tadousac (taj-oo-sac) waiting, the escape-pipe letting off steam, I was sure I heard a band at the hotel up in the rocks—could even make out some of the tunes.

    The Savage Saguenay. Specimen Days 1892

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