lead pipe
Old water tube
A lead pipe is a pipe made of lead, historically used for plumbing before the metal's toxicity was understood.
The phrase appears in lead-pipe cinch, an American expression meaning something absolutely certain or easy: It's a lead-pipe cinch he'll win.
A lead pipe also features as a weapon in the board game Clue.
- plumbingWater and waste infrastructure
- metalHard conductive solid
- heavyOf great mass
- weaponInstrument for inflicting harm
- blunt instrumentWeapon lacking an edge
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- weaponsknife, gun, sword, swords, rifle
- Trumpettrumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, mouthpiece, valves
- board gamesboard, checkers, Monopoly, chess, shogi
- mysteryclue, detective, suspect, clues, sleuth
- water systemswater storage, water line, irrigation ditches, water distribution, water pumps
- metalsaluminum, steel, copper, iron, gold
material composition
lead pipecopper tubing
Hollow metallic conduit material
copper pipe · PVC pipe · plastic pipe · galvanized pipe · brass pipe
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