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Example sentences for "lead pipe"

  • The water was conveyed by a lead pipe, and at the rear of the colonnade one may still see the stopcock by which the flow was regulated.

  • Water was brought into the court by a lead pipe, which passed through one of the columns at the right of the entrance and threw a jet either into a basin standing below or into the gutter in front of the colonnade.

  • The remains of a lead pipe, which brought the water to it, show that it must have been connected with an aqueduct.

  • Solder nipple, a short pipe, usually of brass, one end of which is tapered and adapted for attachment to the end of a lead pipe by soldering.

  • Defn: One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.

  • Plumbing) Defn: A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe.

  • From head of boiler run lines of ⅝″ lead pipe to supply sink and tubs in kitchen, basin, and bath tub on second floor.

  • Run from point marked on plans a ¾″ lead pipe.

  • The lead pipes through to be AA lead pipe.

  • One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.

  • The simplest and most inexpensive way of making this apparatus is to cut off a small piece of lead pipe for a counterweight, and, in the absence of a suitable pulley, use an ordinary screweye fastened in the ceiling.

  • A lead pipe painted in this way will retain its coating.

  • No wan iver heard iv a nation stealin' a lead pipe or committin' perjury,' I says.

  • He was certainly in th' neighborhood whin th' fire started, an' th' polis dug up quite a lot iv lead pipe in his back yard.

  • He tells of being struck three times on the head with a piece of lead pipe, weighing some four pounds, and has in evidence the terrible weapon.

  • Had Kelly put more force into the first blow he struck with his piece of lead pipe, Smith would assuredly have been killed.

  • This smaller tank should contain a lead pipe, pierced and coiled upon the bottom, through which compressed air may be passed, in order to stir up the charge with the water and soda.

  • Old pieces of lead pipe, lead trap, old block tin pipe are used to make solder when pure metals are not at hand.

  • When cutting off a piece of lead pipe from a coil or reel, always straighten out 1 foot more than is needed.

  • Eighth inch sections of lead pipe aren't so different from gold coin, so long as they're in a meal bag with the proper deceptiveness on top.

  • I carried up maybe thirty pounds of lead pipe in eighth-inch sections, and emptied out two of the bags, and shovelled in the lead pipe.

  • When I opened the bags, one of them was mainly full of eighth-inch sections of lead pipe.

  • I could send you to the penitentiary for one year if I chose--the law says I may--one year at hard labor for stealing a piece of lead pipe.

  • The offense you have committed--stealing a piece of lead pipe--is a crime.


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