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pipework
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pipework
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was standing under the truck's engine, staring intently into the masses of rusting pipework.
▪ If it is, hot water will flow into the radiator from the pipework and displace the trapped air.
▪ Inspect the hot water cylinder and pipework carefully.
▪ It should have an isolating valve on the pipework at either side.
▪ Once the old tank has been removed, you can install the pipework for the new cylinder.
▪ Single-stack systems are much neater than two-pipe systems and use less pipework.
▪ The four cylinder diesel units will interchange with the four cylinder petrols with suitable pipework and wiring and throttle linkage.
Wiktionary
pipework

n. 1 Any system of pipes or tubes; piping 2 (context music English) The pipes and stops of an organ

WordNet
pipework

n. the flues and stops on a pipe organ [syn: organ pipe, pipe]

Usage examples of "pipework".

Then it came undone altogether, collapsing into a pool of diarrhetic putresence that bubbled and flowed amidst the pipework.

A mongrel of whale-shark distended by biothaumaturgy to be cathedral-sized, varicellate shelled, metal pipework thicker than a man in ganglia protuberant like prolapsed veins, boat-sized fins swinging on oiled hinges, a dorsal row of chimneys smoking whitely.

In a basement level of the complex, beneath pipeworks and supporting structures, where the primary energy converters loomed several hundred feet overhead, they opened a concealed door into a further shaft that gave no outward sign of existing, and which didn't appear in any of the official plans or construction records.

In a basement level of the complex, beneath pipeworks and supporting structures, where the primary energy converters loomed several hun­.

At the back: weird ducts, mysterious prolapses of pipework, blank walls, fetid alleys.