sb. [f. STAND v.]
1. A vertical pipe for the conveyance of water, gas, steam or the like to a higher level.
1850. Ogilvie.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., I. 209. [In a low-pressure engine] water is … commonly supplied by means of a vertical stand-pipe with a small cistern at the upper end.
1889. Welch, Text Bk. Naval Archit., xi. 127. To empty the double bottom spaces [of a ship], a suction known as a stand pipe is led from each compartment to a valve chest. Ibid., 129. The standpipe valve chest.
2. A pipe for attachment to a water-main furnished with a spout or nozzle to which a hose may be fixed or with a tap.
1850. Ogilvie.
1866. Tomlinson’s Cycl. Useful Arts, I. 3/1. A stand-pipe, with a flexible hose, is placed in one corner of the slaughter-house.
1883. Pall Mall Gaz., 5 July, 7/2. The presence of several firemen with a standpipe in readiness was deemed desirable during the night.
Hence Standpipe v. trans., to supply (a water-main) with stand-pipes.
1895. J. Searle, in Daily News, 22 March, 7/7. The Company caused the district to be stand-piped. Ibid. The special operations of stand-piping and of providing for the increased draught in the district led to an expenditure of many thousand pounds.
