gas pipen.

1807 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. July 135 (margin) Gas pipes.

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 225 Upon no account whatever is a leaden gas-pipe to be employed for the purpose of affording earth.

1892 Amer. Architect & Building News 16 July 44/2 The wires were in close proximity to a gas-pipe of 4.2 inches diameter.

1934 L. Charteris Boodle xiii. 296 A Heath Robinson contraption made up of a couple of old oil-cans and bits of battered gaspipe.

1986 F. Guillou & C. Gray in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) v. iv. 760 Conduit runs should always be kept clear of gas pipes, water pipes, and any other wiring.

1998 G. Ritchie Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 115 He flicks a flaming match into his bird's nest and the man lit up like a leaking gas pipe.

2006 Build It May 22/1 The easement still had not been formally approved so we couldn't lay the gas pipe or arrange the connection.

1816 J. H. H. Holmes Treat. Coal Mines Durham & Northumberland xi. 123 The mines and old workings, in some instances, are provided with cast-iron gas pipes, carried from the mine up the shaft to some yards above the surface. These pipes continually give out a very strong current of gas.

1835 Rep. Select Comm. Accidents in Mines 136 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 603) V. 1 My system consists in having a gas-pipe or discharging drift, and a safe ventilating current at the same time.

1902 Rep. Governor New Mexico to Secretary of Interior 343 Found a strong feeder of CH₄, venting at bottom of main slope,..but a three-fourths inch gas pipe has been inserted in roof of slope and gas is vented through it.

1867 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 June 403/1 His gaspipe [rifle] had gone with the canoe, an' he stood looking the durnedest fool.

1878 in Sessional Papers Canada (4th Parl., 1st Sess.) (1879) V. No. 5. 233 ‘The old gas pipe guns’, as the obsolete weapons were somewhat irreverently styled by the men who were supposed to fight them.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 238 These guns are not the ‘gas-pipes’ I have seen up north.

1910 ‘R. Dehan’ One Braver Thing xxxiii. 276 The Cape Boys with their gaspipe rifles that do good service in default of better.

1938 Rifleman Sept. 125/2 Their blind and ignorant faith in the perfection of any gaspipe which will propel a bullet.

1980 ‘M. Hennessy’ Soldier of Queen iii. iii. 229 They've only got cheap trade flintlocks. Birmingham gas-pipes we call them.

1886 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 5 Jan. 3/4 H. Neilson, local agent of the Giant Powder Company, examined the gas-pipe bombs and pronounced the contents to be giant powder, purchased from his office.

1958 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 19 Aug. 1/7 Two gas-pipe bombs, found at a Wichita minister's home... The bombs ‘are definitely lethal’—made of seven-inch lengths of ¾-inch gas pipe and loaded with a home-made mixture of gunpowder.

1990 J. R. Nash Encycl. World Crime II. 1139/2 In March Faust was reunited with his gas-pipe bombs in the courtroom of Judge Matthew Hartigan.

1934 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 June m3/5 I was suspicious of what Uncle Naboth calls ‘tubercular furniture’—the glittering gas-pipe chairs, the piston-like table legs and the chastely clinical lighting fixtures.

1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 223 No one..who has not looked at a gaspipe chair and reflected that the machine is the enemy of life.

2007 V. Cunningham in R. Quintero Compan. to Satire iii. xxi. 422 A matter of eating tinned food, sitting in a gaspipe chair and enjoying music from a machine.