Blast pipe | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

Related Words

-blast
·- A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, form...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Blast
·noun A violent gust of wind. II. Blast ·noun A flatulent disease of sheep. III. Blast ·vt To conf...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to blast
To curse. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
blast
A sudden and violent gust of wind: it is generally of short duration, and succeeded by a fine breeze...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Pipe
·noun The key or sound of the voice. II. Pipe ·noun An elongated body or vein of ore. III. Pipe ·n...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pipe
(1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored thro...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
pipe
n. an obsolete word, explained inquotations. 1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105: «These w...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
pipe
A measure of wine containing two hogsheads, or 125 gallons, equal to half a tun. Also, a peculiar wh...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Pipe
(Heb. chalil). The Hebrew word so rendered is derived from a root signifying "to bore, perforate" an...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Blast lamp
·add. ·- A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Hot blast
·- ·see under <<Blast>>. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Whirl-blast
·noun A whirling blast or wind. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
blast-engine
A ventilating machine to draw off the foul air from the hold of a ship, and induce a current of fres...

The Sailor's Word-Book
roger's blast
A provincialism denoting a sudden and local motion of the air, resembling a miniature whirlwind. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Air pipe
·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Flue pipe
·add. ·- A pipe, ·esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air up...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pipe clay
·- A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, — used in making tobacco pipes and various kin...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pipe layer
·- One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, ·etc. II. Pipe layer ·- A politi...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pipe laying
·- The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, ·etc. II. Pipe laying ·- The act ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pipe line
·add. ·- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, ·esp. petroleum,...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pipe-line
·add. ·vt To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Soil pipe
·add. ·- A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Twire-pipe
·noun A vagabond musician. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Water pipe
·- A pipe for conveying water. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The Pipe Yard
1) In Whitefriars (Strype, ed 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) In Bristol Street, Pudd...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
clyster pipe
A nick name for an apothecary. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
quail-pipe
A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
whore pipe
The penis. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
pipe-fish
n. common fishname. The speciespresent in Australia and New Zealand is Ichthyocampusfilum, Gunth., ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
pipe-laying
This term, in political parlance, means any arrangement by which a party makes sure of a certain add...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
swine-pipe
i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pennant. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
blow-pipe
An engine of offence used by the Araucanians and Borneans, and with the latter termed sumpitan: the ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
chain-pipe
An aperture through which a chain-cable passes from the chain-well to the deck above. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
deck-pipe
An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
eduction pipe
A pipe leading from the bottom of a steam-cylinder to the upper part of the condenser in a steam-eng...

The Sailor's Word-Book
gas-pipe
A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced breech-loading rifle. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
hawse-pipe
A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable from cutting the wood. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
injection-pipe
This is fixed in the interior of a marine steam-engine, is fitted with a cock, and communicates with...

The Sailor's Word-Book
pipe-clay
Known to the ancients under the name of paretonium; formerly indispensable to soldiers as well as th...

The Sailor's Word-Book
pipe down!
The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
pipe-fish
A fish of the genus Syngnathus, with an elongated slender body and long tubular mouth. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
steam-pipe
See waste steam-pipe. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Old Pipe Yard
South out of Bristol Street to Lime Wharf (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). "The Pipe Yard" (Dodsley, 176...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
blow-off-pipe
, in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...

The Sailor's Word-Book