pipework

English

Etymology

pipe +‎ work

Noun

pipework (usually uncountable, plural pipeworks)

1. Any system of pipes or tubes; piping.
   • 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 274:

     The amount of external pipework is also unusual in a British locomotive, though apparent in the most recent L.M.S.R. designs, such as the Class "4" 2-6-0s; but while lacking the tidiness of the old school of British locomotive engineering, this has obvious application for maintenance purposes in present circumstances.

2. (music) The pipes and stops of an organ.

References

• “pipework”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.