Blast pipe

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Blast´ pipe`


1.The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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