pipe-jackingn.
/ˈpʌɪpˌdʒakɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌdʒækɪŋ/ Engineering.
The use of a pipe jack to lay pipes or make a tunnel.
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1969 Times 28 May 24/1 The Company will now have the advantage of association with the specialist pipe-jacking company, Rees/Hough Ltd.
1991 Constr. Weekly 27 Mar. 15/1 To get under these obstacles Delta is using open-cut, compressed-air tunnelling and hand-excavated and microtunnelled pipe-jacking.
2003 Pipeline & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Oct. 63 Over 30 years experience in other trenchless methods including tunneling, pipe jacking, microtunneling, auger boring and pipe ramming.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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