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pipework

pipework noun: any system of pipes or tubes; piping.

pipework: any system of pipes or tubes; piping
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Noun

pipework (usually uncountable, plural pipeworks)

  1. (usually) Any system of pipes or tubes; piping.
    • The amount of external pipework is also unusual in a British locomotive, though apparent in the most recent L.M.S.R. designs, such as the Class "4" 2-6-0s; but while lacking the tidiness of the old school of British locomotive engineering, this has obvious application for maintenance purposes in...1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 274
  2. (usually) The pipes and stops of an organ.

Forms of pipework

pluralpipeworks

Origin of pipework

From pipe + work.

Questions about pipework

What does pipework mean?
Pipework means any system of pipes or tubes; piping.
What part of speech is pipework?
Pipework is a noun.
What is the plural of pipework?
The plural of pipework is pipeworks.

Words near pipework in the dictionary

  1. pipeway
  2. pipeways
  3. pipeweed
  4. Pipewell
  5. pipewood
  6. pipework
  7. pipeworker
  8. pipeworkers
  9. pipeworks
  10. pipewort
  11. pipeworts

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