Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The pipe leading from the bottom of a pump-barrel or -cylinder to the well, cistern, or reservoir from which the water or other liquid is to be drawn up. See
pump . - noun An air-tight pipe running from beneath a water-wheel to the level of the tail-race. It is said to render the whole fall available.
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Examples
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The american people in general, who will open up the U.S. treasury door, and see a few loose bills floating around in the mouth of the 48 inch suction-pipe that leads to the Halliburton and Bechtel portfolios?
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If it be of cast-iron, a large hammer may effect the purpose: on the water-pipe being broken, the suction-pipe of the engine is placed in the opening so made.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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When the man inside the drain or common sewer has collected a proper supply of water by damming up the channel, the suction-pipe should be handed down to him, and the engine set to work.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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It is of advantage to carry four lengths of suction-pipe, as they can be joined to reach the water; if one is damaged the others will still be serviceable.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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The screwed suction cap with iron handle admits the water in two different directions, according as it is open or closed: the one to supply the engine when water is drawn from the cistern, the other for drawing water through the suction-pipe.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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In the gutters all that is required is to dam them up; and, if there be no materials at hand for this purpose, the causeway must be dug up, till there is a sufficient depth of water for the suction-pipe of the engine.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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In working from an open water, such as a gutter, drain, river, or pond, it is proper, in order to prevent sand or gravel being drawn into the engine, to sink an iron or wooden bucket, into which the suction-pipe of the engine should be placed.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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Small stones, gravel, and other obstructions, sometimes find their way into the nozzle of the branch-pipe, from having dropped into the hose before being attached, or having been drawn through the suction-pipe or from the cistern.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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Two and sometimes three engines are worked by suction-pipe from one plug in this manner.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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Early in the present century Watt devised, for the Glasgow water-works, to bring pure spring-water across the Clyde, an articulated suction-pipe, with joints formed on the principle of those in a lobster's tail, and so made capable of accommodating itself to all the actual and possible bendings at the bottom of the river.
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