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rainwater pipe

British  

noun

  1. another name for downpipe

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My shoulder-blade encountered the sharp edge of a rainwater pipe.

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It is a stronger pipe than a rainwater pipe.

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Then I came here, and built this shingle house and every day I amuse myself by playing tunes, and I never have to climb up the rainwater pipe to get money.

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The roof of George’s house had a kind of depression or well in the middle of it, whence ran a rainwater pipe, which passed down inside, and so, under the floor, to the soft-water cistern. 

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