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standpipe
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A vertical pipe into which water is pumped so that a desired pressure is available at the bottom. 2 # (cx by extension English) A vertical pipe used as an overflow protection drain in certain domestic plumbing fixtures (e.g. flush toilets). 3 The water ...
Wikipedia
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A standpipe is a freestanding pipe fitted with a tap which is installed outdoors to dispense water in areas which do not have a running water supply to the buildings. In the United Kingdom , an "Emergency Drought Order" permits a water company to shut off ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Standpipe \Stand"pipe`\ (-p[imac]p`), n. (Engin.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The end gate of the upper conduit, also showing the winding house and cabin housing one of the hydraulic standpipes.
Usage examples of standpipe.
Another time he had sent Mike to Memorial Park, where the Standpipe was, to look at the birdbath, and once they had gone to the courthouse together to look at a terrible machine that Chief Borton had found in the attic.
It was the Standpipe rolling down the hill, a huge white cylinder still spouting the last of its water supply, the thick cables that had helped to hold it together flying into the air and then cracking down again like steel bullwhips, digging runnels in the soft earth that immediately filled up with rushing rainwater.
The Standpipe began to heel over faster and faster, boards and beams ripping apart, splinters jumping and whirling into the air.
The British mines, which in my day were guarded so cautiously by the army, had apparently been tapped off as neatly as those illegal standpipes plugged in by private citizens all along the Claudian aqueduct.
In Gloucestershire people were forbidden to water the garden or wash their cars, and there was talk of standpipes and water rationing.
Blue asterisks showed the positions of standpipes, most of them along the banks of the Thames.
They stopped occasionally to drink from the standpipes that dripped into basins by the side of the path, or to rest in the shade of tall stones, great red boulders shot through with streaks of gold and black.
It could rain all it wanted during the winter, but given just three days of good old heartwarming sunshine in July and these jokers would start leaping up and down, and tearing their hair, and sticking in meters and standpipes, and demanding that people should save water by cutting down on their bathing and putting bricks in their water closet cisterns .