pipejackv.
/ˈpʌɪpdʒak/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌdʒæk/ Engineering.
transitive. To create (a tunnel) by the use of a pipe jack; to lay (pipes) in this way.
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1954 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 8 Apr. 12/8 30″ reinforced concrete culvert pipe jacked under railroad tracks.
1970 Railway Mag. Oct. 576/2 Access between the station forecourt and the car park at Watford Junction has been completed..by pipe-jacking a subterranean passage..through the ground under the railway.
1992 World Tunnelling & Subsurface Excavation (Nexis) Mar. 93 Of the 955m length of the project some 915m were to be pipejacked.
1999 Water & Waste Treatm. Sept. 8/3 A number of tunnels have also been pipejacked to connect the storage tunnel to the sewer network and a new pumping station.
Derivatives
ˈpipejacked adj. made by pipe-jacking.
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1984 Financial Times 26 Mar. 6/5 Bury MBC has awarded a £2m contract for the construction of 2 km of 1.6 metre pipe jacked tunnel in rock.
1999 World Tunnelling (Nexis) Dec. 451 The pipejacked sewer was required to run directly under this very busy interchange.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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