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Definition: pipe
pipe
n 1: a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking
tobacco [syn:
tobacco pipe]
2: a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry
water or oil or gas etc. [syn:
pipage,
piping]
3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn:
tube]
4: a tubular wind instrument [syn:
tabor pipe]
5: the flues and stops on a pipe organ [syn:
organ pipe,
pipework]
pipe
v 1: utter a shrill cry [syn:
shriek,
shrill,
pipe up]
2: transport by pipeline;
“pipe oil, water, and gas into the
desert”
3: play on a pipe;
“pipe a tune”
4: trim with piping;
“pipe the skirt”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pipe
Pipe
\Pipe\, n. [AS. p[=i]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to
chirp; of imitative origin. Cf.
Peep,
Pibroch,
Fife.]
1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes
of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces
musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an
organ.
“Tunable as sylvan pipe.” --Milton.
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Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.
--Shak.
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2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware,
or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water,
steam, gas, etc.
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3. A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking
tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
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4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the
windpipe, or one of its divisions.
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5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak.
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6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
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The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.
--Tennyson.
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7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
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8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
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9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise
called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the
accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put
together like a pipe. --Mozley & W.
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10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to
their duties; also, the sound of it.
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11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L.
pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually
containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the
quantity which it contains.
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Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes,
as to an engine or a building.
Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve,
etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory
to a pipe.
Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer,
in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown
lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.]
Pipe tree (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so
called because their were formerly used to make pipe
stems; -- called also
pipe privet.
Pipe wrench, or
Pipe tongs, a jawed tool for gripping a
pipe, in turning or holding it.
To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in
token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace,
-- a custom of the American Indians.
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Pipe
\Pipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Piped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Piping.]
1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife,
etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
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A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. --W.
Irving.
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2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's
whistle.
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As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.
--Marryat.
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3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or
a building.
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Pipe
\Pipe\, v. i.
1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind
instrument of music.
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We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.
--Matt. xi.
17.
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2. (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals
on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
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3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to
whistle.
“Oft in the piping shrouds.” --Wordsworth.
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4. (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying;
-- said of an ingot, as of steel.
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