▪ I. pipe-lay, n.
(ˈpaɪpleɪ)
Also pipelay, pipe lay.
[f. pipe n.1 + lay v.1]
= pipe-laying (a). Usu. attrib.
| 1974 Petroleum Rev. XXVIII. 556/2 Standard pipelay equipment was used. 1975 Times 19 Feb. 14/6 Essential equipment (eg, platforms, derrick barges and pipe-lay barges). 1975 Offshore Aug. 124/3 Two stern thrusters on the reel barge and a 3,600-hp tug controlled the barge during the pipe lay. 1976 Offshore Engineer July 6/1 Castoro VI, a new Saipem barge at present undergoing trials, will be used for the trial pipelay of 305mm and 406mm pipeline. |
▪ II. ˈpipe-lay, v. U.S. slang.
[Cf. pipe-laying.]
intr. To ‘lay pipes’ (see pipe n.1 3 b); to take measures preparatory to securing some desired action or event. Also trans., to manipulate or cheat.
| 1848 Campaign Flag (Maysville, Kentucky) 14 Apr. 3/6 He was pipe-layed out of his election last year. 1884 J. MacCarthy Hist. Four Georges I. 107 Bolingbroke and Oxford..had been ‘pipe-laying’, to use an expressive American word, for the Stuart restoration during all the closing years of Queen Anne's reign. 1888 in Farmer & Henley Slang (1902) V. 213/1 There are not a few who are pipe-laying and marshalling forces for the fray. |