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Pipestem   Listen
noun
Pipestem  n.  The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. "Took a long reed for a pipestem."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pipestem" Quotes from Famous Books



... when they had turned him round to march to the shed where he was to be kept, till hung like a pig at sunrise, his eyes glanced about restlessly. For even as the sentence had been pronounced a new idea had come into his mind. Over the heads of the Gippy soldiers, with their pipestem legs, his look flashed eagerly, then a little painfully—then suddenly stayed, for it rested on the green turban of Yusef, the drunken ghaffir. Yusef's eyes were almost shut; his face had the grey look of fresh-killed veal, for he had come from an ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker



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