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brakepipes

brakepipes is the plural of brakepipe.

Meaning of brakepipe

Noun

brakepipe (plural brakepipes)

  1. A continuous pipe or hose filled with high-pressure air and running the length of a train, used to recharge the train's brake reservoirs with compressed air and to control the train's air brakes through changes in its internal air pressure.
    Synonyms:
    train line, trainline

Questions about brakepipes

What is brakepipes the plural of?
Brakepipes is the plural of brakepipe.

Words near brakepipes in the dictionary

  1. brakeman
  2. brakemen
  3. braken
  4. brakeperson
  5. brakepipe
  6. brakepipes
  7. braker
  8. brakers
  9. brakes
  10. brakeset
  11. brakeshoe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brakepipes (page history and authors); brakepipe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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