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▪ I. ˈtail-pipe, n.
Also tailpipe.
1. The suction pipe of a pump.
1883Gresley Coal Mining Gloss., Tail-pipe. 1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xi. 124 A suction-box or valve chest..is fitted beneath the pump and connected to the bottom thereof by the tail pipe shown.
2. a. Aeronaut. (See quot. 1933.) Chiefly U.S.
1922L. S. Marks Airplane Engine xvii. 423 For durability the muffler should be attached to the end of a tail pipe 6 or 8 ft. long which will cool the gases sufficiently. 1933Brit. Standards Inst. Specif. CLXXXV. (Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms) vi. 53 Tail pipe, a pipe which leads exhaust gases away from a manifold. 1956C. W. Smith Aircraft Gas Turbines viii. 167 The exhaust gas pipe from the turbine is conducted to the propulsion nozzle through a duct (often called tailpipe). 1956[see sense 2 b below]. 1973Physics Bull. Dec. 728/1 This difference is often referred to as ‘excess’ or ‘tailpipe’ noise. Work to date has identified this noise source as being associated with the aerodynamic environment in the core exhaust system.
b. U.S. The exhaust-pipe of a motor vehicle.
1956W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 511/1 Tail⁓pipe.., an exhaust pipe for escape of gases generated in an internal combustion engine; specif. in a jet engine, the pipelike structure aft of the exhaust nozzle. 1961E. A. Venk Automotive Fundamentals (ed. 2) xi. 179/2 The tail pipe is a long winding pipe which is connected to the muffler... Two tail pipes are used in a dual exhaust system. 1964S. Bellow Herzog 121 Unless you remembered to bear right the tailpipe would scrape on the rocks. 1973Sunday Bulletin (Philadelphia) 14 Oct. (Parade Suppl.) 16/3 Unfortunately the tailpipe didn't clear the underside of the car. 1979D. Anthony Long Hard Cure iv. 33 Lorraine's car was parked..with the tailpipe backed into a hedge.
▪ II. ˈtail-pipe, v.
[The original implication of the second element seems lost.]
trans. To tie a tin can or the like to the tail of (a dog, etc.) to distress and frighten him. Hence ˈtail-piped ppl. a.
1815Sporting Mag. XLV. 256 A party of men and boys..having tail-piped a dog for the humane purpose of making sport of its agonies. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago ii, Even ‘the Boys’..tail-piped not his dog. 1881Blackmore Christowell liv, He..rushed away headlong, like a tail-piped dog, carrying our men after him. |