WordNet
n. a pipe that carries gasoline from a tank to a gasoline engine; "the car wouldn't start because dirt clogged the gas line" [syn: gas line]
Wikipedia
A fuel line is a hose used to bring fuel from one point in a vehicle to another or from a storage tank to a vehicle. It is commonly made of reinforced rubber to prevent splitting and kinking.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines a fuel line as "all hoses or tubing designed to contain liquid fuel or fuel vapor. This includes all hoses or tubing for the filler neck, for connections between dual fuel tanks, and for connecting a carbon canister to the fuel tank. This does not include hoses or tubing for routing crankcase vapors to the engine's intake or any other hoses or tubing that are open to the atmosphere."
Usage examples of "fuel line".
The violent maneuver must have snapped a fuel line or oil feeder pump.
Then-most likely-a fuel line ruptured, caught fire, and sparked some ammunition.
Flames boiled from a broken fuel line, sending a black and ugly clot of smoke passed the bridge.
The incoming round obliterated the fuel line first of all, and in the process of crashing through the armor created a lethal shower of fragments moving at over a thousand meters per second in the cramped confines, caroming off the inner surface and chopping the crewmen to bits.
What you had was ruptures in a six-foot length of stainless-steel fuel line, five-eighths of an inch in diameter, carrying liquid hydrogen from the tank into the nuclear engine.
A nineteen-second, full-power, sustained chemical laser-burst from Sary Shagan had, indeed, obliterated the replacement launch-detection satellite over the Indian Ocean, first electronically blinding the satellite and then piercing a thruster fuel line, causing an explosion.
Then he landed and met a submarine, and after fucking-excuse me, Flo-fiddling around for an hour or so, which included one of his Airedales falling off the wing into the sea, the morons on the submarine-one of them an admiral's aide and the other a Marine major- finally realized what he could have told them all along, that you have a hell of a lot of trouble running a half-inch fuel line across the high seas from a submarine to a Catalina.