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pipe-stem
[pipe n.1 11 a.]
1. The stem of a tobacco-pipe.
a1734J. Comer Diary in Rhode Island Hist. Soc. Coll. (1893) VIII. 17 He..fell over a log, y⊇ pipe stem ran down his throat and broke. 1755Maryland Hist. Mag. (1923) XVIII. 33 He fell down forward, and run the Pipe stem into the Roof of his mouth. 1846J. W. Webb Altowan I. vi. 168 One of the half-breeds has a piece of an old pipe-stem, which makes tolerable good smoking. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. i. 21 [He] Took a long reed for a pipe⁓stem. 1860J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career vii. 115 A great tribulation that will break my life off as short as a pipe-stem. 1873J. Miller Life amongst Modocs xv. 194 He pointed his pipe-stem at Paquita. 1942J. Masefield Generation Risen 42 The hands, chocked-off, wet through and fireless, Chew pipestems. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xvi. 242 The mild figure puffed at its pipestem.
b. humorously. A thin leg. Also pipe-stem leg.
1883E. Eggleston Hoosier School-Boy 33 Little Columbus Risdale picked himself up on his pipe stems and took his place at the end of this row. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling i. 4 The water..made a rippling sound, flowing past his pipe-stem legs, and was entirely delicious. 1955J. Thomas No Banners xxvii. 268 The obsession with food made Alfred sway on his pipestem legs. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 18/2 Mostly they are elderly.., their pipestem legs squeaking them along in the late-afternoon sun.
2. Comb. pipe-stem clematis U.S., a white-flowered clematis, C. lasiantha, of the family Ranunculaceæ, native to California; pipe-stem wood U.S., a large evergreen shrub, Leucothoe populifolia, of the family Ericaceæ, native to Florida and South Carolina.
1951H. E. McMinn Illustr. Man. Calif. Shrubs 117 Pipe-stem Clematis grows in the Coast Range valleys.
1791W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 24, I observed..the great evergreen Andromeda of Florida, called Pipe-Stem Wood. 1813H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 43 Pipe-stem wood, Andromeda acuminata. |