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3 words match “BLAST PIPE”

BLAST PIPE n.
The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
BLAST n.
hich water enters. -- Blast nozzle, a fixed or variable orifice in the delivery end of a blast pipe; -- called also blast orifice. -- In full blast, in complete operation; in a state of great activity. See Blast, n., 2. [Colloq.]
VARIABLE a.
Shak. His heart, I know, how variable and vain! Milton. Variable exhaust (Steam Eng.), a blast pipe with an adjustable opening. -- Variable quantity (Math.), a variable. -- Variable stars (Astron.), fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods.