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ventiduct|ˈvɛntɪdʌkt|
Also 7 venteduct.
[f. L. venti-, ventus wind + duct-us a conducting.]
1. A pipe or passage serving to bring cool or fresh air into an apartment or place, esp. in Italy and other warm climates.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 261 Cold winds..such as by vente⁓ducts from the vast caues aboue Padua they let into their roomes at their pleasure. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys.-Mech. 173, I have been informed of divers Ventiducts (as they call them) by very knowing Travellers that have observ'd them. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne III. 320, I would fain know what pain it was to the Persians..to make such ventiducts..as Xenophon reports they did. 1702Floyer Cold Baths i. iv. (1709) 108 They stop their Sweats, un⁓seasonably by Cold Air, by Fanning, Ventiducts, or Cold Baths. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 33 From these Caves arise extreme cold Winds..through certain subterranean Vaults, named..Ventiducts: and..through all the Chambers..these Wind-Pipes, or Ventiducts, are discharg'd. [1818Southey in Q. Rev. XIX. 18 (copying Evelyn Acetaria ii. xi) His scheme of a Royal Garden comprehended..precipices and ventiducts.] 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 106/1 Ventiduct, to bring in fresh air without dust or fog.
fig.1652Benlowes Theoph. xii. cxvii, Th' herb [sc. tobacco] that cramp and tooth-ache drives away,..whose pipe's both ventiduct and stove. a1658Cleveland News from Newcastle 52 What need we baths? What need we bower, or grove? A Coal-pit's both a Ventiduct and Stove.
b. A conduit for the passage of wind, air, or steam.
1685Phil. Trans. XV. 922, I..discover'd in severall dry places of the ground thereabouts, many little Ventiducts, passages, or clefts, where the Steam issued forth. 1725J. Reynolds View of Death (1735) 23 This channel is called by..the English miners the drift; by Mr. Boyle, the venti⁓duct. 1843in C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 177 A ventiduct, made of plank,..should extend from the centre.
transf.1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xvi. 458 From these cold, dark ventiducts [i.e. thoroughfares] you may come out suddenly upon a bright warm corner of an open square.
2. attrib. Of a hat: = ventilatory a.
1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4808, Patent corrugated ventiduct hat. |