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exhaust pipe (plural exhaust pipes)

  1. For internal combustion engines, any of several pipes, connected in series, that carry waste gases away from the engine and vent it to the air.
    Hyponyms: tailpipe, sidepipe
    Holonym: exhaust system
    Comeronyms: muffler, catalytic converter
    1. The final pipe in this series.
      Synonym: tailpipe (North America)
  2. On a steam locomotive, a pipe which takes away steam exhausted from a cylinder.
    • 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
      [] with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.
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