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pipage|ˈpaɪpɪdʒ| Also pipeage. [f. pipe n.1 + -age.] The conveyance or distribution of water, gas, petroleum, etc. by means of pipes; the construction or laying down of pipes for this purpose; such pipes collectively.
1612Sturtevant Metallica 92 Pipeage..is..the making of earthen pipes, for the conducting..of fresh waters, for the..vse of houses. 1883Century Mag. July 334/1 Paying twenty cents a barrel as the pipage charge, and a storage charge of fifty cents per day per thousand barrels. 1897W. R. Paterson Tormentor 100 Strange vermin course, much like water-rats, through the veins and pipage of men's lives! |