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downpipe

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: downpipes

A downpipe is the vertical pipe taking roof water to the ground. Clear the downpipe.

A blocked one sends water down the wall instead, which is how damp starts in most houses. A downpipe should discharge into a drain rather than onto the ground beside a wall.

M.Minderhoud · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of downpipe

  1. 1noundownpipeThe vertical pipe taking roof water to the ground.C1

    “The downpipe had been blocked with moss since the summer.”

downpipe is a pipe.

Where it comes from

Down plus pipe; the older British term was rainwater pipe, and downpipe has largely replaced it.

From down + pipe.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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downpipe in the wild

  • A downspout, waterspout, downpipe, drain spout, drainpipe, roof drain pipe, rone or leader is a pipe for carrying rainwater from a rain gutter.

    Downspout

  • The 'A' model could be derestricted by cutting the washer from the downpipe or buying an after market down pipe.

    Kawasaki KDX125

  • There is a lead rainwater head and downpipe, a dentilled and modillioned cornice gutter, and two chimneys.

    22–26 Blossom Street

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.