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ˈair-pipe
[air- 7.]
A pipe for the passage of air; as a. One of the bronchial tubes in the lungs; b. A ventilating pipe or tube.
c1675Ray (Jod.) The lungs are made up of such airpipes and vesicles. 1748Boscawen in R. Mead Wks. (1762) 430 The airpipes fixed in the men of war have been of great service in this particular. 1889F. R. Stockton Gt. War Syndicate vi. 84 If the air-pipes..could be rendered useless the crew [of the submarine vessel] must inevitably be smothered. 1899W. S. Churchill River War I. i. 2 The Soudan is joined to Egypt by the Nile, as a diver is connected with the surface by his air-pipe. |