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toˈbacco-pipe
1. A pipe for smoking tobacco, made of clay, wood, or other material, of various shapes and sizes, consisting of a bowl in which the tobacco is placed and ignited, with a slender tube through which the smoke of it is drawn into the mouth by suction. King's (Queen's) tobacco-pipe: see pipe n.1 10 c.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 199 The pummell of a scotch saddle, or pan of a Tobacco pipe. 1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. v. ii, Nor half that smoke..Which one tobacco-pipe drives thro' his nose. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 205 The Turkish Tobacco pipes are more than a yard long. 1861Wright Ess. Archæol. I. ii. 27 Tobacco pipes have been found..in very singular approximations with objects of remote antiquity.
2. U.S. Local name for a parasitic plant, also called Indian pipe: see Indian A. 4 b.
1845S. Judd Margaret i. xvi, She found..the curious mushroom-like tobacco-pipe.
3. attrib. and Comb., as tobacco-pipe bowl, tobacco-pipe maker; tobacco-pipe clay = pipe-clay; tobacco-pipe fish = pipe-fish.
1620–1Canterb. Marr. Licences (MS.), John Lyne of Canterbury, tobacco-pipe-maker. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 156/4 One [vessel]..laden with Tobacco-pipe Clay, and Fullers-Earth. a1672Willughby Ichthyogr. (1686) Tab. 6 Petinbuaba Bras.: Tobacco pipe Fish. 1804P. F. Tingry Paint. & Varnish. Guide 280 A white earthy matter, commonly known under the name of tobacco-pipe clay. 1876Goode Fishes Bermudas 17 Petimbuabo Brazil (The Tobaccopipe-Fish) is Fistularia tabaccaria. |