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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



... such hasty fellows, these Uhlans," said he, "always shooting first and making inquiries afterward." As a matter of fact, the only Uhlan we saw on the entire trip was riding about Brussels in a cab, smoking a large porcelain pipe and with his spurred boots resting comfortably ...
— Fighting in Flanders • E. Alexander Powell

... that house I always admired when I was a kid. And that was a big cistern. Most people has their cisterns outside their house, and they is a tin pipe takes all the rain water off the roof and scoots it into them. Ourn worked the same, but our cistern was right in under our kitchen floor, and they was a trap door with leather hinges opened into it right by the kitchen stove. ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... his pipe occupying one corner of his mouth, and the other cocked at a distinctly humorous angle, sat on the step of the caravan on the evening of the day succeeding that of his marriage, and read the announcement thereof in the paper which he had ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... and dance your jigs," she called, "and pipers, pipe you well, for here's my own Florentine, come back to me to stay for he's brought no bonny boy with ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)

... to finish, standing a moment to light his pipe, his hat acock; then he is gone. The sisters wash at the sink, Mika combing her mass of frowzy dark hair, talking meanwhile. The sisters' toilet, summary and limited, ...
— The Woman Who Toils - Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls • Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst


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