'Soil pipe' definitions:
Definition of 'soil pipe'
(from WordNet)
noun
Drain that conveys liquid waste from toilets, etc.
Definition of 'Soil pipe'
From: GCIDE
- Soil pipe \Soil pipe\ A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Soil pipe'
From: GCIDE
- Soil \Soil\, n. [OE. soile, F. sol, fr. L. solum bottom, soil; but the word has probably been influenced in form by soil a miry place. Cf. Saloon, Soil a miry place, Sole of the foot.]
- 1. The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Land; country. [1913 Webster]
- Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil. [1913 Webster]
- Improve land by dung and other sort of soils. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- Soil pipe, a pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. [1913 Webster]