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steampipe

[ steem-pahyp ]

noun

  1. a pipe for conveying steam from a boiler.


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Origin of steampipe1

First recorded in 1855–60; steam + pipe 1
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RockPaperShotgun reports that the issue first seems to have cropped up in 2014, when Valve moved its games into its new SteamPipe content distribution system.

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Climbing down to the prison’s bowels, they intend to chip through walls to a steampipe that runs out past the perimeter wall, where they pop up through a manhole and escape.

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There was a steampipe overhead, and knotted to it, dangling from it, was a piece of cord—the kind of cord the killer had used.

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The real meat of the show is in the institute’s new galleries, where pieces from James’s workroom, from forms to a bent steampipe that served as a design inspiration, are on view.

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There were steampipe collars to unbolt and pack, and bolt again, before that was done; while when Austin came upon Jefferson, he held up one hand from which the scalded skin was peeling.

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