| Pipe (pipe) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Pipe |
| [AS. p***imacr]pe,
probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative
origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife.] |
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.
Any long tube or hollow body of wood,
metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor
of water, steam, gas, etc.
A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used
in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
A passageway for the air in speaking and
breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
The key or sound of the voice.
The peeping whistle, call, or note of a
bird.
The bagpipe; as, the
pipes of Lucknow.
An elongated body or vein
of ore.
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.
A boatswain's whistle, used
to call the crew to their duties] also, the sound of it.
A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons;
also, the quantity which it contains.
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To
play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of
music.
To call, convey orders,
etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a
boatswain.
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of
a pipe; to whistle.
To become hollow in the
process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
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| Pipe (pipe) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Pipe |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Piped (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Piping.] |
To perform, as a tune, by
playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.] to utter in the shrill tone of a
pipe.
To call or direct, as a
crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to
pipe an engine, or a building.
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