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petticoat pipes

petticoat pipes is the plural of petticoat pipe.

Meaning of petticoat pipe

Noun

petticoat pipe (plural petticoat pipes)

  1. A short, flaring pipe surrounding the blast nozzle in the smokebox of a locomotive, to equalize the draft.
    • The ordinary blast-nozzle and petticoat pipe properly proportioned for any British locomotive can make it produce 30 d.b.h.p./sq ft of grate continuously with a blast-pipe pressure 4 lb/sq in. above atmospheric pressure.1962 February, “Letters to the Editor: The Giesel oblong ejector”, in Modern Railways, page 143, letter from W. A. Tuplin

Questions about petticoat pipes

What is petticoat pipes the plural of?
Petticoat pipes is the plural of petticoat pipe.

Words near petticoat pipes in the dictionary

  1. Petticoat Creek
  2. petticoat discipline
  3. petticoat government
  4. petticoat governments
  5. petticoat pipe
  6. petticoat pipes
  7. petticoat punishment
  8. petticoat punishments
  9. petticoat tail
  10. petticoat tails
  11. petticoated

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