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Tubing

noun

Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases. Synonym: tube.

Tube

verb

(past & past part. tubed; pres. part. tubing)

Provide with a tube or insert a tube into.

Convey in a tube.

Ride or float on an inflated tube.

Place or enclose in a tube.

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... "All my iron tubing and drilling machinery disappeared in the Rapids. There was no way to recover it and we went to Fort McMurray in the other boat. It carried my lumber and most of the provisions, but I couldn't work without tools. There was nothing to do but ...

— On the Edge of the Arctic - An Aeroplane in Snowland • Harry Lincoln Sayler

... give us trouble. Every time we get up steam, even a few pounds for condensing water, we find that large quantities of hot water flow into the hold; eight inches escaped in about twelve hours yesterday. Unfortunately, too, this tubing is laid so low in the bottom of the ship, as to be out of reach for examination or repairs without being taken up. The Governor sent me off a fine turkey and some fruit, and his lady a bouquet of roses. The roses were very sweet, ...

— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes

... of the glorious geysers of the Yellowstone Park are alike, neither do the two great caves of the Hills indicate that they should be so. The vent-tubing of each is quite unlike that of the other in all the essential governing points of length, size, shape, angle of inclination and power-conserving bends. And the differences extend in an almost equally marked degree throughout the vast and complicated succession ...

— Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills • Luella Agnes Owen

... attention to this," he said, in a loud, clear voice, every note of which carried to the back of the long room. "This, as you possibly know, sir, is a piece of electric tubing made for the express purpose of conveying safely delicate electric wirings that are used for installations, so that they may not be damaged in transit from the factory to—the agent who sells them. You would like to see the wirings, I know—" ...

— The Riddle of the Frozen Flame • Mary E. Hanshew

... a tendency to overriding of the fragments, especially in the case of the index and little fingers, it is sometimes necessary to apply extension to the distal segment of the digit, by means of adhesive plaster, to which elastic tubing is attached and fixed to the end of a bow splint, reaching well beyond the finger-tips (Fig. 52). This should be worn for a ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

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