steelpipe

English

Noun

steelpipe (plural steelpipes)

  1. Alternative form of steel pipe
    • 1975, Jackson, John N, Welland and the Welland Canal, Mika Pub. Co., page 63
      The primary metal industries are almost entirely concerned with iron and steel, which alone accounts for over half the manufacturing employment in Welland, and is concentrated in three detailed industrial groups — 35 per cent in iron and steel mills, 15 per cent in steelpipe and tube mills and 1 per cent in iron foundries.
    • 1987, The Cold war against labor : an anthology, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, page 806
      […] in factories of chemicals heating steelpipes standing over large vats of molten lead.
    • 2003, Kane, William, The brothers and the sisters, Crowsnest Press, page 26
      After working two years in a steelpipe factory, Frank left Pittsburgh and finally settled in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where several other Ludbreg families had already immigrated.
    • 2007, Saw, Swee-Hock, The population of Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, page 5
      New and medium scale industries over a wide front were set up to produce plywood, cables, steelpipes, electrical appliances and textiles.
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