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Pipe   /paɪp/   Listen
Pipe

noun
1.
A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco.  Synonym: tobacco pipe.
2.
A long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc..  Synonyms: pipage, piping.
3.
A hollow cylindrical shape.  Synonym: tube.
4.
A tubular wind instrument.
5.
The flues and stops on a pipe organ.  Synonyms: organ pipe, pipework.
verb
(past & past part. piped; pres. part. piping)
1.
Utter a shrill cry.  Synonyms: pipe up, shriek, shrill.
2.
Transport by pipeline.
3.
Play on a pipe.
4.
Trim with piping.



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"Pipe" Quotes from Famous Books



... grease; so he turned his back upon all mankind, and became a hermit. But a hermitage coupled with a livelihood is not to be had in the midst of a large city except up in the steeple of a church. Thither he betook himself, and smoked his pipe in solitude. He looked up, and he looked down; reflected according to his fashion upon all he saw, and all he did not see—on what he read in books, and what he read ...
— The Sand-Hills of Jutland • Hans Christian Andersen

... the Black War Eagle), chief of the coasts of Arenac, brought me an antique pipe of peculiar construction, disinterred at Thunder Bay. It was found about six feet underground; and was disclosed by the blowing down of a large pine, which tore up a quantity of earth by its roots. The tree was two fathoms round, ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... plants purchased or received as gifts. The other, Professor Hochstetter, is an odd little man, stepping briskly about in his high boots, and having always a half suppressed smile on his hips whenever he takes the pipe from between his teeth. A very good man, however, and extremely obliging; he offered us every civility. As we desired not only to make their acquaintance, but to win from these botanists at least a few grasses, we presented ourselves like true commis voyageurs, with dried ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz

... the day,—strolls the charm of which I could never quite define, and the impression from which is incommunicable. There would seem to be little that was pleasant or memorable in our perambulations of the main street of a little fishing-town,—the Bailie, with his stump of a pipe for company, always choosing the esplanade, while Christie and I as frequently idled along the opposite pavement, pausing now and then at the little shop-windows and gazing at their mean or meagre displays, illumined by a farthing candle, with a keener zest ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various

... that man's pipe had a greenish look; he may be growing unlicensed tobacco at home. I wish I had brought my telescope to this district. Come to the post-office; I will telegraph for it. I found it very useful ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various


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