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Pipes connected to the waste outlet to water-using appliances such as WCs and wash-basins after the water-trap.
1. Intake structures 1999
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The outlet-pipe for gas from the holder leads through the condensing coil _L_ immersed in the water in the tank to the condensed water-trap _N_, and thence by the tap _Q_ to the supply-pipe.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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It was well for him that Dorothy and Caspar had now omitted the setting of their water-trap, otherwise he would have entered the fountain court in a manner unfavourable to his project.
St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864
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It was well for him that Dorothy and Caspar had now omitted the setting of their water-trap, otherwise he would have entered the fountain court in a manner unfavourable to his project.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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Fearing the return of Asiatic Cholera in 1871, he described with words and a little drawing how downward ventilation worked by drawing off foul air through a pipe intersecting the drain above the water-trap, on the same principle as a tobacco pipe.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8
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