syphons

Such seal-pots or "syphons" are commonly used on ordinary gas-distributing systems, and might be applied in the case of large acetylene installations, as they offer facilities for removing the condensed water from time to time in a convenient and expeditious manner.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

Fortunately, they had pushed in two bottles of whiskey and some soda-syphons; I just dosed them all around until it was finished.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

Well before Starbucks arrived, syphons began disappearing in large numbers due to the cost of providing the coffee.

It's the coffee! Ann Althouse 2008

Until a few years ago,almost all coffee houses in Japan made each cup of coffee individually in syphons like those.

It's the coffee! Ann Althouse 2008

Working in real-time through the already established electronic banking system it syphons off a very small amount of every transaction (or movement) of money and redistributes it in an even manner to each person in the economy.

Can a New Communism Save the World? 2008

It provides no service — in fact it actively works to eliminate people from the system — and simply syphons off money in the middle.

Think Progress » Senate Multimillionares Vote To Block Minimum Wage Hike 2007

Anyway, these clam's syphons are unnatural -- even for geoducks.

Crisis in the North: Pig War II 2006

The white busts and the little tables in the background covered with copies of the Tatler and syphons of soda water seemed to approve; seemed to indicate the flowing corn and the manor houses of England; and to return the frail hum of the motor wheels as the walls of a whispering gallery return a single voice expanded and made sonorous by the might of a whole cathedral.

Mrs. Dalloway 2003

There were long walls of alternating bottles set along two white covered tables; whiskey, gin, brandy, French and Italian vermouths, and orange juice, not to mention an array of syphons and two great empty punch bowls.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

For them to operate in a purely passive way, all these water and air-loop systems, also called thermo-syphons, require placing the collector at a lower level than the heat outlet, for them to operate in a purely passive way.

3. Design rules 1993