petticoat-pipe love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pipe in the smoke-box of a locomotive, having a bellmouthed lower extremity into which the exhaust-steam enters, the upper end extending into the lower part of the smoke-stack. It serves to strengthen and equalize the draft through the boiler-tubes.

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