Downcomer

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·noun A pipe to conduct something downwards;.

II. Downcomer ·add. ·noun A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, ·etc.

III. Downcomer ·add. ·noun In some water-tube boilers, a tube larger in diameter than the water tubes to conduct the water from each top drum to a bottom drum, thus completing the circulation.