The phrase "a drainpipe of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe something that channels or directs a flow, often of information or resources.
Example: "The internet has become a drainpipe of information, constantly feeding us data from around the world."
Alternatives: "a conduit of" or "a channel of".
For that matter, I once came across pornographic playing cards in a drainpipe of the Dakota.
Then they all ran toward a drainpipe of an improbably small diameter, and, one by one, disappeared into it, their furry behinds wriggling tightly.
Then they all ran toward a drainpipe of an improbably small diameter, and, one by one, disappeared into it, their furry behinds wriggling tightly..
* That tired old weasel Paul McMullan has cut an unfortunate figure on our screens ever since the former tabloid hack was dragged out of a drainpipe to offer his professional take on the current News International crisis.
More than two years later, some of the diamonds were found in a drainpipe north of Paris.
The most dramatic version of the story has him climbing out a window and sliding down a drainpipe to take the book into hiding.
Mr. Reuter had set up a mock gutter and was pouring a pitcher of water over a pile of leaves to show how his product, a filter for the top of a drainpipe (fashioned out of half a Wiffle ball), would prevent clogging.
By letting the water run and hanging a pair of pants over a ledge above the door of a cubicle, the report said, the prisoner gave himself 11 minutes to make his way through the window, shinny down a drainpipe onto a cushion of rolls of toilet paper, climb a fence and disappear.
On Monday, in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, two people, including a firefighter, were sucked into a drainpipe in the town of Schwäbisch Gmünd; a 62-year-old man was found dead in a flooded basement garage in Weissbach; and a 13-year-old girl, seeking shelter under a railway bridge, was struck by a train and killed in Schorndorf.
Cullompton Manor House is a grade I listed building with sections built in 1603 (dated panel and initials TT for Thomas Trock on the top corner of the front of the house) and 1718 (on a lead cistern head of a drainpipe, are the letters (L) S/WT (R) and the date 1718).
At a nearby house with yellow danger tape around it, the base of a drainpipe registered 22.1 microsieverts per hour.
