[AIR- 7.] A pipe for the passage of air; as a. One of the bronchial tubes in the lungs; b. A ventilating pipe or tube.
c. 1675. Ray (Jod.). The lungs are made up of such airpipes and vesicles.
1748. Boscawen, in R. Meads Wks. (1762), 430. The airpipes fixed in the men of war have been of great service in this particular.