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单词 pipe
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pipen.1

Brit. /pʌɪp/, U.S. /paɪp/
Forms: Old English pip- (in compounds), Old English– pipe, Middle English pip, Middle English–1600s pype, 1500s pyppe, 1500s–1600s pippe, 1800s poipe (English regional (Yorkshire)); Scottish pre-1700 pip, pre-1700 pyip, pre-1700 pyp, pre-1700 pypp, pre-1700 1700s pype, pre-1700 1700s– pipe.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian pīpe (West Frisian pipe , piip ), Middle Dutch pīpe (Dutch pijp ), Old Saxon pīpa (Middle Low German pīpe , pippe ), Old High German pfīfa (Middle High German pfīf , pfīfe , German Pfeife ), Old Icelandic pípa , Old Swedish pipa (Swedish pipa ), Danish pibe , ultimately < post-classical Latin pipa < classical Latin pīpāre (also pīpiāre ) pipe v.1; post-classical Latin pipa is in fact attested only much later, in the senses: tube, conduit (9th cent.), cask (frequently 1212–1469 in British sources), tube on a horse's collar (frequently from 1314 in British sources), pipe roll (frequently 1320–1586 in British sources), bagpipe (14th cent.).In Romance languages compare (ultimately either < post-classical Latin pipa or < the Romance verbs listed at pipe v.1) Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French pipe (c1225 in Old French), Old Occitan pimpa (a1148), pipa (c1220; Occitan pipa ), Catalan pipa (late 13th cent.), Spanish pipa (1402), Portuguese pipa (1152), Italian piva (a1313; also ( < French) pipa (1640 as pippa in sense ‘pipe for smoking tobacco’)). Compare also pipe n.2 Early Irish píb (Irish píob , Scottish Gaelic pìob ) is from Latin or perhaps French. Welsh pib is from either Latin or English. In senses 10a and 10b after Anglo-Norman pipe (14th or 15th cent. in sense 10a, 1323 or earlier in sense 10b). The pipe rolls consisted of a number of separate rotuli or rolls (each consisting of two pieces of parchment stitched together, with writing taking up both sides); the rotuli were sewn together head to head, and then rolled up together so that the resulting collection of documents had the appearance of a piece of drainage pipe. (The explanation given in quot. 1598 at sense 10a shows a folk etymology.) With sense 10a compare later Pipe Office n. With sense 10b compare later pipe roll n. In sense 14b after the post-classical Latin name syringa syringa n. In sense 28 probably after Canadian French pipe in the same sense.
I. A tubular wind instrument.
1.
a. A wind instrument consisting of a tube of reed, wood, metal, etc., frequently with holes along its length which may be covered by the fingers to vary the pitch; any woodwind instrument.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun]
pipeOE
whewc1475
chalumeau1713
mouth pipe1728
tube1820
toodle-pipe1890
the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > hollow cylinder or tube
pipeOE
channela1387
cannela1400
canal?a1425
trump?1440
tunnel1545
clyster1578
cannon1588
bugle1615
tube1658
OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 302 Musa, pipe oððe hwistle.
OE Lapidary 14 An stan..þæs ansine is swilce an man pipige mid nigon pipan & an man hearpige.
OE Wulfstan Isaiah on Punishment for Sin (Hatton) 217 Hearpe & pipe & mistlic gliggamen dremað eow on beorsele.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 22 (MED) Het [read Bet] þuȝte þe dreim þat he were Of harpe & pipe þan he nere. Bet þuȝte þat he were ishote Of harpe & pipe þan of þrote.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2548 Þer weore segge songe; þer were pipen i-magge.
?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) 525 (MED) Kniȝtes inowe mid him he haþ inome Mid harpe & mid pipe, mid ioie & mid songe, Mid alle worssipe mest his fader to vnderfonge.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Dan. iii. 5 In the hour in whiche ȝe shuln heere the sown of trumpe and pipe and harpe, sambuke, sautrie, and symfonie, and al kynde of musikis.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 15011 (MED) Wit harp and pipe and horn and trump, þe strette þai him vmsette.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3918 (MED) They wentto þe dyner, the hole company, With pipis & with trompis & othir melody.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 761 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 118 The lilt pype and ye lute.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxx. 30 My harpe is turned to sorow, & my pipe to wepinge.
1578 in J. M. Bestall & D. V. Fowkes Chesterfield Wills & Inventories 1521–1603 (1977) 150 One peare of pyppes wyth all other Implementes and all other thinges thereto belonging wyth a boxe of reedes.
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. F2v (stage direct.) A noyse within of a Tabor and a Pipe.
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King Their lean and flashie songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.
1685 A. Behn Misc. 294 His happy Pipe, The best that ever grac'd a Shepherds Lip!
1728 R. North Mem. Musick (1846) 37 The tibia were pipes that sounded by a reedall device like those affixed to bagpipes.
1767 N.Y. Gaz. 8–15 June (Weyman) 1/3 (advt.) The best Lind violins, German Flutes, tipt and plain, Fifes, Tabors and Pipes.
1799 W. Wordsworth Ruth ii She had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 106 Wandering musicians with pandean pipes and tambourine.
1877 J. Northcote Catacombs i. v. 72 The pastoral reed or tuneful pipe.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo iii. x. 405 The miners of San Tomé, all Indians from the Sierra, rolling by like a torrent to the sound of pipes and cymbals.
1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) II. 236/1 A wooden pipe with 7 + 1 holes terminated at one end by a copper bell and at the other end by a small reed mouthpiece.
1997 E. Hand Glimmering i. ii. 28 The music of the reed pipe spiraled and wailed.
b. Each of the tubes of metal or wood by which the sound is produced in an organ; = organ pipe n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe
pipea1387
organ pipe1440
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 73 (MED) [c1410 Add. MS Þe wynd brekeþ out and fylleþ] þe holownesse of þe organs, and þanne by schapliche drauȝtres þe brasene pipes sendeþ out swete cry and noyse of melodye.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 401 Pype, of orgonys, ydraula.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 96 A pipe of organes, cante.
a1527 W. Peeris Proverbis (1892) 478 The swete orgayne pipis comfortith a stedfast mynde..But he that playethe of pipes wher so grete nowmber is Must handill the keyes all lyke.
1552–3 Inventory Church Goods in Ann. Diocese Lichfield (1863) IV. 47 A pere of orgaynes, one pype of brasse.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 4 b Of diuerse lengths like Organe pipes.
a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 137 The Organ hath many Pipes, all which are filled with the same blast of wind.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 709 As in an Organ from one blast of wind To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths. View more context for this quotation
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Diapason A Kind of Rule, or Scale, whereby they adjust the Pipes of their Organs.
1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music i. 39 The pipes formed only of brass, must have been so shrill and piercing that [etc.].
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 46 While the great organ almost burst his pipes,..rolling thro' the court A long melodious thunder.
1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 574/2 The pipes of the early organs are said to have sounded at first altogether.
1905 T. Casson Pedal Organ 27 The borrowing must be economical; that is, it must cost less in room or money, or both, than actual independent pipes.
1959 A. Nin Children of Albatross 29 Every room in a different tone like the varied pipes of an organ, to emit a wide range of moods.
1997 Spy (N.Y.) May 24/2 Cash-strapped St. Patrick's Cathedral was offering to name individual pipes of its organ after members of the public.
c. Chiefly Scottish. A set of bagpipes. Now chiefly in plural.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe
bagc1275
stivec1290
cornemusec1384
musettea1393
bagpipec1405
pair1422
pipec1450
muse1484
drone1502
lilt-pipea1525
great pipe1592
miskin1593
Highland pipe1599
small-pipes1656
piffero1724
Highland bagpipe1728
zampogna1740
union pipes1788
Lowland pipes1794
pibroch1807
piob mhor1838
gaita1846
sack pipe1889
set1893
biniou1902
uillean pipes1906
c1450 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (St. John's Cambr.) (1961) 157 (MED) Pipe [c1350 Harl. 874 it ne shal neuermore be founden in voice of harp ne of styue ne of trumpe.].
1599 A. Hume Hymnes in Poems (1902) 54 On hieland pypes Scots, and Hybernik, Let heir the shraichs of deadly Clarions.
1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 30 Twiss blowes the Scotch pipes, and..Puts on the traces, and treads Cinqu-a-pace.
a1706 R. Sempill Life Pyper of Kilbarchan vii At Horse Races many a day..He gart his pipe, when he did play, Baith skirl and skreed.
1746 R. Forbes Lyon in Mourning (1895) I. 158 They began to hear the pipes of the Prince's army playing very briskly; and then the Laird thought fit to turn tail and run with speed.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 501 He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 65 Some pipe of war Sends the bold pibroch from afar.
1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India III. ix. iv. 636 They cheered and charged with the bayonet, the pipes sounding the pibroch.
1874 G. MacDonald Malcolm xix Duncan strode along in front, and Malcolm followed, carrying the pipes.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 328 The select orchestra of Irish pipes struck up the wellknown strains of Come Back to Erin.
1955 Times 10 May 12/3 The programme will include displays by the pipes and drums of the bands of the Arab Legion and the Pakistan Police.
1994 C. McWilliam Debatable Land (1995) ii. 43 The limbless more often took to music—a mouth organ, a tatty set of pipes and a thrown-down bonnet on the pavement—than to alcohol.
d. Nautical. A boatswain's whistle; the sounding of this as a call to the crew. Cf. pipe v.1 4a. Cf. also Pipes n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > boatswain's whistle
pipe1638
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > whistle > call or boatswain's whistle
pipe1638
call1671
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > sounding of or signals on pipe
pipe down1839
pipe1873
secure1895
still1933
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 30 The whistler with his iron Pipe encouraging the Marriners.
1738 G. Lillo Marina ii. i. 26 The shrill whistle of the boatswain's pipe.
1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands iv. 33 The boatswain called all hands out to work by winding his pipe.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful III. ix. 147 The pipe of the boatswain re-echoed as the captain ascended the side.
1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. July 489/2 The pipe went for all hands to ‘scrub and wash clothes’.
1928 Times 30 Apr. 21/3 There may also be seen the silver pipe or call belonging to the boatswain of the Victory at Trafalgar.
1989 R. Jolly Jackspeak at Pipe Whistle call made to indicate various phases of a ship's daily life... Nowadays the shrill notes of the Bo'sun's pipe have been replaced to a large extent by..the Tannoy, but if an officer is wanted urgently somewhere in the ship, then a pipe is made for him.
2001 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. ii. 3 One 74-year-old Navy veteran whistled ship calls on a pipe he used as a boatswain in World War II.
2. In extended use.
a. The voice or vocal cords, esp. as used in singing. Now usually in plural in colloquial use.Perhaps influenced by sense 7.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [noun]
reirdOE
voicec1330
stevenc1369
sound1385
laita1400
lively voice1532
pipe1567
live voice1610
vocalities1667
squall1725
vox1869
Hobson's choice1937
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > singing voice > [noun]
voicea1513
pipe1567
vocalities1667
song voice1842
1567 Triall of Treasure sig. Biv I must tune my pipes first of all with drinking.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 28v Wher vnder a sweet Arbour..the birdes recording their sweete notes, he also strayned his olde pipe.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 189 A straunge orator straining his pipes, to perswade straung people.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iv. 32 Thy small pipe Is as the maidens organ, shrill, and sound. View more context for this quotation
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. iii. 26 One of the Combatants, by his Voice, she immediately distinguished to be her Father; but she did not so soon discover the shriller Pipes to belong to the Organ of her Aunt Western. View more context for this quotation
1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times II. 185 She was a very pretty woman..and had a very sweet pipe.
1843 W. M. Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii He..will occasionally lift up his little pipe in a glee.
1859 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Bairnsla Foaks' Ann. 3 T'shauts at thay drew aght a ther pipes az t'weddiners past i ther carridges wor really wunderfull.
1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 28 More than once he had let drive with a Pop Bottle at the Umpire and then yelled ‘Robber’ until his Pipes gave out.
1992 Utne Reader Mar. 120/2 Once you hear him wrap his pipes around a tune, you'll carry the memory with you till your dying day.
b. A high-pitched note or song, usually with a thin or shrill tone, spec. that of a bird. Cf. pipe v.1 7a.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > cry or call > thin or shrill
pew?a1500
yelping1593
pipe1721
whistle1784
queek1786
peek1834
pipe note1854
wheep1860
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 81 The Bullfinch and Robin-Red-Breast speak in a Treble Tone or Pipe.
1743 R. Blair Grave 8 The sooty Black-bird Mellow'd his Pipe, and soften'd ev'ry Note.
1858 N. J. Gannon O'Donoghue i. 10 Varied by fox's bark, the wail Of plover, or the pipe of quail.
1889 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow 229 The thin pipe of the gnat heard at night.
1911 F. H. Burnett Secret Garden xx. 216 There were fluttering of wings and faint sweet pipes and humming.
1992 M. Stewart Stormy Petrel (BNC) 34 The sad little pipe of the ringed plover.
II. A hollow cylinder or tube through which something may pass; also in extended use.
3. A hollow cylinder or tube of metal, plastic, wood, or other material, used to convey water, gas, etc.In quots. OE, lOE apparently: spec. a tube for drinking sacramental wine from a chalice.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe
pipeOE
canal?a1425
conduit-pipec1425
tube1658
OE Rec. Gifts of Bp. Leofric to Exeter Cathedral (Bodl.) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 226 i geboned altare, & v silfrene caliceas, & iii corporales, & i silfren pipe, [etc.].
lOE Rec. Gifts of Bp. Æðelwold to Peterborough (Sawyer 1448) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Peterborough Abbey (2009) 324 i æren, & i sylurene waterfet, & ii sylurene bellen, & iiii silurene calices, iiii patenan, & syluren pipe, [etc.].
1276 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) xviii. 267 (MED) [8 lb. of tin bought for joining and mending the gutters over the vaulting..and the] pypes [extending from the vaulting].
c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 225 In þe tur þer is a welle [emended in ed. to walle]..He urneþ in o pipe of bras, Whider-so hit ned was.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 152v Ȝif a welle springeþ in þe coppe of an hille, ofte by pipes þe watir is y-ledde to þe same hiȝnesse into a noþer hille.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 5678 (MED) At his hede, of gold was an ourne, Þat was filde with bawme natural Þat ran þoruȝ pipes artificial Þoruȝ nekke & hed in-to many a place.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 497 As thoruȝ a pipe or a canal.
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 465 (MED) I was a pipe of lede welnere cc yere, And now to alle men good siluere I appere.
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 35 The saide water hath bene conueied vnder erth in pypes of leade.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 14 As water doth, when pipes of lead or wood are goog'd with punch.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 475 The Citizens conveighed water out of the river through pipes by an artificiall instrument or water-forcer.
1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass 364 The Pipes are the hollow Irons to blow the Glass.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iv. 60 Water, to be conveyed up by Pipes and Engines.
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 155 Sodder, used by the Plumber for soddering of Pipes.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 304 The barometer..is composed of a glass tube or pipe..closed up at one end.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 408 The Sucking-pump consists of two pipes, the barrel and suction-pipe.
1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 200 Pipes, containing either hot water or steam.
1893 Law Times 95 62/2 An inspector..tested the drain, when he found that the joints of the pipes were not properly cemented.
1904 N.Y. Times 21 Apr. 9 He appeared in the saloon and shouted: ‘Gee whiz! The gas pipes is all leakin'.’
1957 H. S. Zim & P. R. Shaffer Rocks & Minerals 61 Superheated water is pumped down large pipes, melting the sulfur.
1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah St. 106 What she remembered now was the sound of sobbing she had heard, echoing through the bathroom pipes.
†4. Medicine.
a. A tube for introducing a medicinal substance into the body, irrigating a wound, drawing out infected matter, etc. Cf. tube n. 2b. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > tube or cannula > other tubes
pipeeOE
pipe?a1425
nose tube1857
feeding-tube1884
tracheotomy tube1897
tracheostomy tube1961
stent1964
grummet1966
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. liii. 126 Wið smega wyrme niwe cyse & beobread & hwætenne hlaf ete. Eft monnes heafod ban bærn to ahsan do mid pipan on.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xlvi. 260 Gif him se utgang forseten sie oððe gemigan ne mæge mid sineþre ondounge wyrtdrences þurh horn oððe pipan sio wamb biþ to clænsianne.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 230v An instrument þat hatte suringa..is a smal pipe by þe which medicyne is y-do to þe bladdre.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 166 Þou schalt putte in a pype [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. cannale; L. canulam] of brasse or of siluer..and þou schalt not late drawe oute mykel of þe mater.
c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 68 Lat the pype be as longe as a fyngre and put in hote water till it be lewke and þen put the pype wele in to þe fundement and thrist then owt all that is in the bledder in to the body.
b. A hollow instrument used in suturing wounds. Obsolete.
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a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 170 (MED) Summen seien þat þe smale guttis moun be sowdid in þis maner: make a pipe [L. cannule] of eldre & putt wiþinne þe gutt & þanne soude þe gutt þer vpon.
a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 9 (MED) Iren instrumentis..Summe ben to sewe wiþ, as nedlis & pipis.
c. A tube through which a cauterizing instrument is passed, in order to protect the surrounding flesh. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > tube or cannula > other tubes
pipeeOE
pipe?a1425
nose tube1857
feeding-tube1884
tracheotomy tube1897
tracheostomy tube1961
stent1964
grummet1966
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 115 Ȝif þu myȝte cauterie him wiþ a cauterie þat is cleped punctale, putte it in as it were in a pipe of brasse.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 569 (MED) Many and dyuers cauteries be made for special profites..by þe nose, for þe festre wiþ an accuel cauterie with a pipe.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 112 Siþen take a pipe of siluer or of yren & putte it in to þe ground of þe festre þoruȝ which þou schalt putte þin hoot instrument in to þe same boon so corrupt.
†5.
a. A small stream, esp. one flowing into a river. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel
runeOE
sitchOE
pipeOE
sichetc1133
guttera1300
siket1300
sikec1330
watergate1368
gole?a1400
gotea1400
flout14..
aa1430
trough1513
guta1552
race1570
lode1572
canala1576
ditch1589
trink1592
leam1601
dike1616
runlet1630
stell1651
nullah1656
course1665
drain1700
lade1706
droke1772
regimen1797
draught1807
adit1808
sluit1818
thalweg1831
runway1874
OE Bounds (Sawyer 60) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 65 Of þam æcere in cærsa bæt. Of þam bæte in pipan. Of pipan in wiði broc.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 288 The greater ryuers..haue their increase from many smal Wels (or springs) the which..bee conueied in slender quilles, then afterwarde (meeting together in course) doe growe by little and little into bigger pipes.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 220 Diuers other smal pipes of water..minister secondarie helpes to this Nauigable Riuer.
a1731 D. Defoe Curious & Diverting Journies thro' Great-Brit. (1734) sig. Kkkv Those Pipes are furnished with a Fire Plug, which the Parish Officers have the Key of, and when opened, let out not a Pipe, but a River of Water.]
b. English regional (northern). A small gorge or ravine issuing from a larger one. Obsolete. rare.
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1820 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire 50 Pipe, a small dingle or ravin, breaking out from a larger one.
1866 J. Sleigh Derbyshire Gloss. in Reliquary 6 165 Pipe, a small ravine issuing from a larger one.
†6. Saddlery. A tube of leather, wood, or metal on a horse's collar through which the traces (or sometimes the reins) are passed to prevent chafing against the horse's sides. Cf. piping n.2 10. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for
norsela1300
pipe?1309
tug1417
tug-hook1417
spreadbat1775
trace-ring1795
trace-tug1795
spreader1810
cock eye1819
stretcher1828
tug-buckle1851
roller1856
piping1875
tug-carrier1877
tug-slide1877
trace-iron1902
trace-loop-
?1309 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 506 1 coler et 1 dorset de novo, empt. 18s., 3 paribus de pipes.
1333–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 523 (MED) 8 pipes pro tractubus et 4 par. tractuum pro predicta carecta.
1378 in C. M. Woolgar Househ. Accts. Medieval Eng. (1992) I. 246 In ii novis pipes v d.
1418 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1709) IX. 543 Cum..Stuffura rationabili de Pipis, Rigeboundes, Bellibondes, & Shotyng-ledders, de Corio, pro Reparatione Trescentorum Parium Trays pro Equis & Carectis.
1434 in C. M. Woolgar Househ. Accts. Medieval Eng. (1992) II. 447 Item pro corio empto to make pypes xvii d.
1612 R. Loder Farm Accts. (1936) 27 iij paire of pippes at xvjd ye paire.
1777 Farmer's Mag. June 173 The pipes of the back, and the collars of the belly [should be made] of bull hide.
7. A tubular organ, passage, canal, or vessel in a human or animal body. Now usually (in plural): the blood vessels; the alimentary canal; the respiratory passages. Cf. tube n. 9, windpipe n. 1. Now chiefly colloquial.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun]
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > tube or canal
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c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2752 The pipes of his longes gan to swelle.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 69 (MED) Þe sperme descendith and is þrowe oute in þe pype of þe ȝerde.
c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 127 (MED) The last too dayes was his drynk secluded fro him, so closed wer his pipes with violens of þat sor.
1482 Monk of Evesham 21 His feete ware ful coolde... No mouing of his pypys might be knowen long tyme.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 8791 The lycour belyue launchit doun evyn Thurgh the goters of his gorge, & the grete pype To the brest of the buerne.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 57 The nauill..is appointed to be the pipe to conuey both [breath and meat] vnto him before he be borne.
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. ii. sig. K1v I am well skill'd in letting blood: bind fast This arme, that so the pipes may from their conduits Conuey a full streame.
1647 R. Josselin Diary 21 Nov. (1976) 108 I have a litle stopping in my pipe, which makes me wheeze a litle in the nights.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶3 He loves to clear his Pipes in good Air (to make use of his own Phrase).
1782 A. S. Gentleman's Compl. Jockey 190 The lanes, pipes, and passages for the breath are almost stopped and choaked up.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 194/1 I'm sewer that meat isn't good; th' pipes is full o' blood.
1980 K. Thear in K. Thear & A. Fraser Small Farmer's Guide to Raising Livestock & Poultry (U.S. ed.) i. 20/1 Between the crop and the gizzard is the glandual stomach, a short, swollen section of the food pipe.
1994 Esquire May 111/1 Among the male neuroses, hair-loss anxiety has one of the lowest flash points—hence the cortisol churning in your pipes.
†8. One of several tubular sections used to form a frame or support for a banner or cross carried in a procession. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > of specific tool
crankc1000
steal1377
pipe1397
pot-hook1397
shaft1530
fork-shafta1642
bell-handle1768
hasp1770
fettle1812
panhandle1890
1397 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 445 (MED) Quinque pipes de argento cum cruce argentia et deaurata cum ij tintinnabilis argentiis pro vexillo sancti Cuthberti.
1466 Inventory in Archaeologia (1887) 50 42 (MED) Item, j staf for to set on the pypys for the crosse wt othir iij crosse stavys.
1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 104 ij coper crosses..pypes belongyng to them.
1593 Rites of Durham (1903) 22 A goodly and sumptuous banner..with pippes of siluer..with a device to taike of and on ye said pipes.
9. Any tubular part of a machine, instrument, or device; spec. a cylindrical container or socket into which another part is placed. Cf. pipe key n. at Compounds 2, drill pipe n. at drill n.2 Compounds 1b. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > tubular part
pipe?c1425
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 188 The þridde instrument beþ holowe tenacles for hoked arwes; The fourþe beþ wymbles turned aȝeynewarde to take þe holownesse or pype of yren.
1590 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 402 For mending the stol lock..& for making ane new pyp..thairto.
1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. D2v Codfishing... A Chopsticke is an Iron about the bignesse of a Curtaine Rod, and a yard long, and vpon this Iron is an hollow pipe of Lead, 8 or 9 inches long.
a1700 in D. Thomson Dunfermline Hammermen (1909) 11 Ane bigg locke with pipe and six crossmarks.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery v. 379 These Pipes or Tubes shall be well reinforced with the Sinews of Beasts steeped in Glue.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. iii. 99 Draw the ramrod out of the barrel, and return it into the pipe.
1853 A. C. Hobbs & C. Tomlinson Locks xi. 159 The process of piercing the key consists in making the pipe or barrel.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 101 The pipe that carries the minute hand.
1916 Yorks. Post 12 Feb. 14/1 The ‘pipe’ (as the socket used to be called) is about twice the length of the modern socket.
1984 Antiquarian Horology Dec. 152/1 A further rack..meshes with a pinion mounted on the hour pipe.
10.
a. With the. The department of the Exchequer responsible for drawing up and preserving pipe rolls. Chiefly in Clerk of the Pipe. Cf. Pipe Office n. Now historical.Abolished by the Fines & Recoveries Act, 1833.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts
calends of exchangec1374
scorea1400
pipe1455
mensalc1475
profit and loss1553
stock1588
bank account1671
lump-account1699
revenue account1703
profit and loss account1721
sundry1736
drawing account1737
stock account?1768
private account1772
trading account1780
Flemish account1785
capital account1813
embankment1813
cost account1817
cash-credit1832
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
suspense account1869
control account1908
checking account1923
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
budget account1969
ISA1975
MSA1993
society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > department managing public money > specific branch of
pipe1598
Pipe Office1631
pell1681
sub-treasury1702
1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 342/2 The Tresorer of Englond..hath yeven and grauntid the Office of the Clerk of the Pipe and Remembrauncer.
1598 F. Bacon Office of Alienations in Wks. (1879) I. 588 That office of her Majesty's exchequer, which we, by a metaphor, do call the pipe,..because the whole receipt is finally conveyed into it by the means of divers small pipes or quills.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Nnn4/1 Secundaries of the Pipe two: Secundarie to the Remembrancers, two, which be Officers in the Exchequer. Camden. pag. 113.
1642 C. Vernon Considerations Excheqver 45 Which is not to be allowed of upon Record in the Pipe, by the first Secondary there, untill [etc.].
1667 E. Chamberlayne Present State Great Brit. i. ii. xiii. 121 They deliver the same attested for a lawful Tally to the Clerk of the Pipe to be allowed in the Great Roll.
1715 London Gaz. No. 5298/3 The Right Honourable William Lord Cheyne..to be Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer.
1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer ii. 18 The Summons of the Pipe got in the Tallages.
1776 G. E. Howard Treat. Exchequer & Revenue Ireland I. 14 Any debts due to the King either in the Pipe or with the Auditors.
1834 Act 4 & 5 William IV c. 16 §1 The Office of Recorder of the Great Roll or Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer in Scotland shall cease and determine.
1859 Times 9 Mar. 11/4 [Lord Murray] was Recorder of the great Roll, or Clerk of the Pipe, in the Exchequer Court.
1961 G. E. Aylmer King's Servants: Civil Service of Charles I v. 138 The separation of the ordinary standing taxes on recusants from the ancient revenues of the Pipe, which were accounted for by sheriffs of counties, royal bailiffs, [etc.].
1997 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Feb. c2 Ambitious politicians vied for quaintly named royal sinecures such as..Clerk of the Pipe.
†b. = pipe roll n. Also in extended use. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > specific
Great Roll1397
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red book?1445
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the Black Book of the Exchequer1592
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great book1794
scoreboard1823
1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 476/1 The grete evidences and proves laide for the partie of the seid Reverend Fadre, the oold bookes, evidences, writyngs..particuler accomptes bookes called the Pipes.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 18 §3 The same accomptes..to be taken & fylled uppe in the pype theyr to remayne of recorde.
1570 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (new ed.) ii. v. §1. 153 Are sutche Monuments laide vp onely in the Rolles, and Pipes of your memorie?
1749 B. Martin Lingua Britannica Reformata (at cited word) Pipe, the great roll in the exchequer.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 521/2 Pipe, a roll in the Exchequer; otherwise called the Great Roll.
11. Hairdressing. A small tube, usually of baked clay, used for curling hair, esp. on a wig. See also roulette n. 5. Now historical.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > instrument used to curl
pipe1740
1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen Introd. 9 The buckling upon Pipes and boiling soft broken Hair.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxviii. 127 I'll put your white ramallie-wig fresh into pipes.
1860 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. Gloss. Pipes, small articles made of pipe-clay used for keeping the large periwigs in curl.
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 114/1 Pipe, a cylindrical object of either box wood or baked clay, hollowed a little in the middle length. Used for curling hair in the 17/20th centuries.
12. Australian. A lampoon against a prominent figure, usually written on a piece of paper rolled into a tube and left in a public place. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > lampoon or satire > type of
pipe1816
calavera1928
1816 W. C. Wentworth Misc. 6 Mar. in Austral. National Dict. (1988) 481/3 By the Pipe Maker on seeing the advertisement in the Gazette offering..a reward of two Hundred Pounds for the detection of him.
1852 J. West Hist. Tasmania I. 107 Malice or humour..expressed itself in what were called pipes—a ditty, either taught by repetition or circulated on scraps of paper.
1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 122/2 The first pipes were written in 1803 against Governor King... The pipes..were usually doggerel verses of little merit interlarded with puns and Latinisms.
III. Something resembling a tube in appearance or function.
†13. Wire of gold or silver used to ornament metalwork; similar wire or thread used to decorate a woman's hair or garments. Usually in plural. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > other
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tip1681
fal-lal1703
falbala1705
furbelow1706
jewelling1718
weeper1724
pompom1748
chiffons1765
foliage-trimming1818
mancheron1822
piping1825
manchette1835
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sparklet1902
slotting1923
?c1425 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 87 (MED) De x s. de ij fiolis argenteis; De v s. v d. ob. de j pipe pro j basnet.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 9 (MED) Sche weryd gold pypys on hir hevyd, & hir hodys wyth þe typettys were daggyd.
?1440 A. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 26 I prey yow do byen for me ij pypys of gold [i.e. gold thread].
a1475 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Harl.) (1927) 1612t (MED) The helme was dyght rychely With pipes of gold and ryche pery..And perytotes of moche myght.
1533 in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 26 A gyrdell of pyppes of silver.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. vii On theyr heades skayus and wrappers of Damaske golde with flatte pypes.
1556 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 110 [Vestments] one chekeryd with grene velvet and litle silver pipes.
1600 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) III. 502 One Frenche gowne of blacke vellat, with an edge of purle, and pipes of gold.
14.
a. †The stem of a plant (obsolete); a tubular vessel (or †cavity) in a plant.
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the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun]
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thighc1440
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pipe?1523
start?1523
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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxx Lowe places: and all the holowe bunnes & pypes that growe therin.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xliii. 202 This kinde of Lillie beareth..amongst his leaues as it were certayne pypes or clysters.
1676 Philos. Trans. 1675 (Royal Soc.) 10 538 The water through the trunk forms bubbles, because it meets with the Air in those pipes; through the leaves, only mild drops by a simple percolation.
1793 J. Claridge Gen. View Agric. Dorset 32 This..retains the straw in its original state; the hardness and roundness of the pipe is preserved.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 74 The strongest wheat-straw..laid on upon the building in whole pipes, unbruised by the flail.
1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ 223 Whenever a branch is broken off, a pipe is soon formed, and it is especially these holes with abrupt entrances which the opossum affects.
1998 New Scientist 12 Dec. 7/1 As the contents leak out, they percolate through the youngest vessels, or ‘pipes’, in the xylem, the tree's internal plumbing system.
†b. Mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius. blue pipe n. lilac, Syringa vulgaris. Cf. pipe tree n. 1. Obsolete. rare.Indian pipe: see Indian pipe n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1b(b).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > lilac and allied trees > syringal mock orange
pipe1597
pipe tree1629
syringa1664
mock orange1731
seringa1740
Philadelphus1754
Scotch lilac1759
orange-flower tree1877
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1214 The later Phisitions call the first Syringa,..that is to say, a Pipe, bicause the stalks and branches thereof, when the pith is taken out, are hollow like a Pipe. It is also..surnamed Candida or white, or Syringa candido flore, or Pipe with a white flower... Lillach..is sometimes named Syringa cœrulea, or blew Pipe.
1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 594 They are not very scrupulous in the choice of those Leaves, but will make use even of exotick Plants, such as the blew Pipe or Syringe Tree.
†15. An icicle. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > icicle
ickleeOE
icicleOE
cocklebella1500
pipe1556
shockle1596
tanglea1646
ice needle1831
1556 J. Withals Short Dict. (new ed.) sig. Biij/1 The Ise icles or pypes hangeynge vpon the eaues of a howse.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 46 To thow the pypes and schokles of yce, frosin vpon thame.
16. A trap for birds; esp. each of the channels of a decoy for wild fowl. See decoy n.2 1.Also as a trap for other animals, in compounds with the animal specified as the first element; see hare-pipe n., salmon pipe n. at salmon n.1 and adj. Compounds 3.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > pond trap > part of
pipe1565
funnel1774
1565 T. Peend tr. M. Bandello Moste Notable Hist. Ld. Mandosse sig. F.ivv The craftye Fowlers pype full sone the selye byrde beguyles.
1595 T. Churchyard Musicall Consort: Churchyards Charitie 3 As fowlers pipe, the harmles bird disseaues That lights on lyme, amid greene birchen leaues.
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 171 There are five pipes in this coy as in mine.
1724 W. Stukeley Itinerarium Curiosum I. 16 The tame ducks..swim into the pipe cover'd with nets.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 464 There are several pipes (as they are called) which lead up a narrow ditch, that closes at last with a funnel net. Over these pipes..is a continued arch of netting... It is necessary to have a pipe or ditch for almost every wind that can blow.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 68 The decoy birds resort to..the mouth of the pipes, followed by the young wild fowl.
1887 G. M. Fenn Dick o' the Fens (1888) 112 Quite a hundred followed their leaders up the pipe in happy ignorance of the meaning of a net.
1906 N.E.D. at Piper A dog used to lure wild fowl into the pipe of a decoy.
1968 Punch 8 May 680/2 The Orwell Decoy consists of two acres of water with four decoy ‘pipes’ situated in the heart of a wood of thirty acres.
1979 B. Tarrant Hey Pup xix. 467 When the ducks are enticed to the bend in the pipe, the decoyman heels his dog and runs back to the large opening at the entrance.
1993 National Trust News (Thames & Chiltern Region) Spring 4/3 The naturally curious ducks swim towards wherever they last glimpsed the piper dog. They are gradually drawn up the pipe and into the decoyman's nets.
†17. British regional. A large oval cell in a beehive inhabited by a developing queen bee; a queen cell. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > honeycomb > cell inhabited by queen bee
pipe1609
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie vi. sig. G4v The queenes celles are built single... In fashion they are round... The common people..cal them pipes forsooth, or taps.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pipe, a large round cell in a beehive used by the queen bee. West.
18. Mining and Geology. A distinctive body of rock, ore, sediment, etc.
a. An irregular ore body lying more or less parallel to the strata. Also: a large, irregular mass of ore.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > of ore
pipe1635
pipe vein1653
squat1671
body1672
moor1778
ore bed1787
1635 Deposition (P.R.O. E. 134/11Chas.I/Mich20) m. 1. Question 5 Was he not..to haue a full third parte of all the oare that should be gotten in throughout the nohole Myne rake veyne or pipe?
?1644 G. Hopkinson Laws & Customs Mines Wappentake of Wirksworth (1948) 5/1 A Pipe is a Vein of Lead ore, incompassed with a Lidstone or Roof.
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 5 If there be any rakes or pipes of Lead or Tin Oar.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. L4v Lidd, the Cover that lies over the Tops of Veins sometimes, but over Pipes always.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. P A Pipe always lies Flat, or is a Flat Work, having in general a hard Roof and Sole.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 81 We have been informed of a Pipe of Copper Ore..which is two hundred fathoms deep.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 317/2 Bunny—Of Tin or Copper Ore... A pipe of Ore. A great collection of Ore without any vein coming into or going from it.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 832 The pipe does not in general cut the strata across like the rake vein, but insinuates itself between them; so that if the plane of the strata be nearly horizontal, the bearing of the pipe vein will be conformable.
1969 Univ. Leicester Dept. Geol. Special Publ. No. 1. 73 In Derbyshire, the term ‘pipe’ is used to indicate similar stratiform orebodies in which length greatly exceeds breadth.
1982 L. Willies Lead & Leadmining (1994) 7/2 Sometimes the ore is found in pipes or flats, especially in limestone... Pipes appear like infilled cave passages, which sometimes they are.
b. A vertical tubular cavity in a calcareous rock such as chalk, often filled with sand or gravel. Cf. sand-pipe n. (a) at sand n.2 Compounds 2a.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > cavity or opening
loch1767
vug1818
pipe1839
pocket1850
vogal1855
window1908
fenster1925
1839 C. Lyell in London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 15 265 As to the sandy clay found at the bottom and round the exterior of the pipes..this is due to rain-water which..has become charged with fine particles of mud and iron.
1843 Geologist 2 128 The author maintains that the pipes in the chalk..were formed by the action of the sea on a low shore.
1860 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. II. 332 You used to be interested about the ‘pipes’ in the chalk.
1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. i. 8 Quarry sections often show a number of more or less vertical pipes filled with a brownish earth-like rock which may contain stones and flints.
1977 Antiquaries Jrnl. 57 189 Three large masses..recovered from red clay-with-flints filling a solution pipe at Aston Rowant (Oxon.).
c. A vertical eruptive channel in and below a volcano which opens into the crater; a roughly cylindrical mass of intrusive volcanic rock occupying what used to be such a channel (= neck n.1 7c); spec. one in which diamonds are found embedded.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > volcanic formations > [noun] > volcanic vent
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vent1604
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spiraculum1670
spiracle1671
solfatara1764
sulphur1764
volcanic crater1776
fumarole1811
air volcano1814
mud volcano1816
salse1831
blowhole1858
pipe1877
soufrière1879
bocca1881
mofette1887
pan1888
blowing-cone1895
smoke-hole1899
fault-vent1903
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > source rock > containing diamonds
pipe1877
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > cylindrical mass
pipe1877
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography xii. 189 At the mouth of the volcanic pipe, there is usually a funnel-shaped opening known as the crater.
1903 Daily Chron. 2 June 2/3 Diamonds..only appear at the surface in places where they have shared in a volcanic upheaval. Hence they are found in what are technically known as pipes.
1920 A. W. Grabau Textbk. Geol. viii. 167 Volcanic plugs, i.e., the hardened lava which still fills the old pipes, are exposed in many regions in horizontal or in vertical sections as the result of erosion.
1946 J. D. Forrester Princ. Field & Mining Geol. iii. 120 Diagrammatic cross-section of a mineralized breccia-pipe... As the dikelike masses welled upward, mineralizing juices percolated through the breccia.
1962 P. Teilhard de Chardin Lett. from Traveller 311 It's country in which you find ‘pipes’ of blue rock, and diamond bearing gravel-beds.
1978 J. Gribbin This Shaking Earth ii. 47 The gold found there is in the roots of an old volcano, about 660 yards (600 meters) of which have weathered away to expose the various ‘pipes’ and ‘necks’ which once fed fluid magma into the active craters above.
1995 Financial Rev. (Sydney) 10 Mar. 36/1 Diamond company Ashton Mining Ltd's search for new resources had received significant encouragement with the discovery of a new pipe in North America.
d. Any more or less cylindrical or tubular ore body.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > cylindrical deposit
pipe1884
1884 Science 4 July 25/1 These ores occur in situ between parallel walls of limestone, in plate-like masses, scales, or as cylindrical pipes in bunches eight or ten feet long, while feathering out both in line of strike and dip.
1935 Mineral. Abstr. 6 46 An ore pipe in marble near a granite contact at Arandis, South-West Africa,..contains near its margin cassiterite.
1941 Amer. Mineralogist 26 194 (title) Ore-bearing pipes in the Tarryall Range, Colorado.
1964 Econ. Geol. 59 883 Lead-zinc-silver ores occur in pipes cutting Mesozoic carbonate rocks in the vicinity of a Tertiary granodiorite stock.
1998 Jrnl. & Proc. New S. Wales 131 13 The occurrence of maldonite (Au2Bi) in the molybdenite-bismuth quartz pipes of Kingsgate, in the New England region of New South Wales is described.
19. A burrow; a tunnel forming part of a burrow or nest. Now English regional (northern) and rare.
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the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter > burrow
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tunnel1873
pig-hole1928
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. 453 The old Beavers harbour the whole Winter in the Pipes, to which they remove in the beginning of November.
1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 156 From every part of these large galleries are various small pipes or galleries leading to different parts of the building [sc. a termite mound].
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Pipe, a branch or side-run in a rabbit-warren.
20. Each of the fluted parts of a frill or ruff. Also: a pin used in making these. Cf. piping n.2 8. Now rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > ruffle or frill > fluting in
pipe1813
1813 J. Austen Let. 16 Sept. (1995) 222 My Cap is come... Fanny has one also..shaped round the face..with pipes & more fullness, & a round crown inserted behind.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pipe, a pin used for piping or fluting.
1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 253/1 Pipe, narrow tube-shaped article; specifically, fluted part of a frill.
21. slang. In plural: a pair of high boots; top boots. Cf. mud-pipes n. at mud n.1 Compounds 2a. Now rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > high or long > boots
stand-ups1590
Hessian1806
pipe1819
butcher boots1860
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 196 Pipes, boots.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood II. iii. v. 319–20 Jist twig his swell kickseys and pipes [Note Breeches and boots].
1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 763/1 Mud-pipes, thick boots: from earlyish C.19.
22. A piece of confectionery, etc., of a tubular or cylindrical form. Also as a mass noun.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > stick or tube
wreath1562
rock1718
sugar stick1825
pipe1843
lemon platt1916
slim jim1916
seaside rock1963
1843 J. Pereira Treat. Food & Diet i. ii. 120 Sugar constitutes the base of..hard confectionary, sold under the names of Lozenges, Brilliants, Pipe, Rock, Comfits, Nonpareils, &c.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 355/1 Isinglass..under the names of ‘leaf’, ‘staple’, ‘book’, ‘pipe’,..according to its form.
1925 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 10 Mar. 6/2 (advt.) We [Sc. North Side Candy Store] are..going to sell our entire stock at reduced prices..$1.50 box candy..$1.00..$1.50 Pipes..$1.00.
1996 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 6 June a15 It is a dark, wizened cheroot of a toe. The back end begins blunt and cylindrical like a pipe of licorice.
23. Metallurgy. A funnel-shaped cavity running into an ingot from the surface, caused by shrinkage of the metal during cooling; a condition characterized by such cavities.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > qualities of metals > [noun] > imperfections > cavities in casting
blowhole1691
sand-hole1691
air bladder1803
air hole1813
pipe1861
pinhole1906
1861 Brit. Patent 1310 2 Shrinkage forms a deep tube or funnel in the upper part of the ingot... This funnel is called by steel manufacturers the ‘pipe’ of the ingot.
1923 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics V. 357/2 If this takes place any shrinkage of the metal during further solidification must result in the formation of a pipe.
1973 J. G. Tweeddale Materials Technol. II. ii. 36 Metal ingots..are often cast with open tops and the defective top material, including any pipe, is usually cut off subsequently.
1995 Amer. Metal Market (Nexis) 15 Mar. s7 The reason for continuous casting was to exclude defects—shrinkage cavities and pipes.
†24. In the manufacture of impure sodium carbonate (black ash): each of the numerous hollow jets of flame which occur around the burning ball of raw material. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > hollow jet of flame
pipe1880
1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 175 Just as the pipes begin to disappear, the bright hot mass is raked out quickly.
25.
a. U.S. colloquial. A certainty, a sure thing. Cf. lead-pipe n. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > [noun] > that which is certain
certainty1330
suretyc1400
demonstrable1656
given1879
pipe1895
1895 E. W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden, Major Max & Other Stories 178 I'll give you de straight pipe tip dere ain't a dead swell mug in town what knows de Bow'ry better dan Mr. Paul.
1899 Daily Iowa State Press 3 Feb. 6 What's the use of doping over the race? It's a pipe for Hamburg.
1961 M. Braly Felony Tank 47 ‘What if you lose?’..‘I won't. That game's a pipe.’
b. colloquial. Something that is easy to accomplish; a cinch. Cf. pipe course n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy
ball play?c1225
child's gamec1380
boys' play1538
walkover1861
picnic1870
pudding1884
cakewalk1886
pie1886
cinch1888
snipa1890
pushover1891
pinch1897
sitter1898
pipe1902
five-finger exercise1903
duck soup1912
pud1917
breeze1928
kid stuff1929
soda1930
piece of cake1936
doddle1937
snack1941
stroll1942
piece of piss1949
waltz1968
1902 ‘H. McHugh’ It's up to You iii. 66 It was so easy it was a shame... ‘The idea is Napoleonic, little woman!’ I said. ‘It's a pipe!’
1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners ii. 44 A procession of shamefaced athletes who..had thought erroneously, when they had registered for it, that Anglo-Saxon was ‘a pipe’.
1952 P. G. Wodehouse Barmy in Wonderland viii. 80 This show's a pipe, and any bird that comes in is going to make plenty.
1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Sept. a23 The way Lasorda wins friends, winning games is a pipe.
26. Computing.
a. = pipeline n. 2d.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > electronic component, circuitry > sequence of modules
pipeline1965
pipe1974
1974 IEEE Trans. Computers 23 533 Further, it has been shown that these arithmetic operations can be overlapped in the pipe in any desired sequence, and thus significant speed improvement can be achieved.
1982 Sci. Amer. Jan. 121/1 The cyber 205 processing unit has either two or four floating-point arithmetic pipelines (pipes for short).
1990 ICL Techn. Jrnl. 7 201 A sophisticated jump prediction mechanism is implemented for the 2900 order code. It is essential in order to maximise the performance of the pipe.
b. A physical or notional data channel or route.
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1979 Economist (Nexis) 21 Apr. 114/1 The third barrier is the speed and volume of data that the SBS system can carry... Higher frequencies mean, in essence, a bigger pipe and faster flow.
1993 Byte Dec. 69/1 A fat T 1 pipe from Bethesda into the frame-relay ‘cloud’ will enable headquarters to consolidate operations data from all these sites.
1995 Desktop Publishers Jrnl. July 45/1 If we increase the diameter of the ‘pipe’ to say 600 Megabytes per minute, we see just a minor improvement in throughput, up to 30%, but not the 1000% you paid for.
1999 Wired Jan. 84/2 The answer isn't making computers dumber; it's making their pipes wider.
c. A temporary connection between two processes or commands, so that the output from one command becomes the input for the next.
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1982 Computerworld 29 Mar. 51/4 CRDS Unos does include such Unix features as file management facilities..; I/O redirection; and ‘pipes,’ a method for allowing the output of one process to be the input for a second process.
1990 L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz Programming Perl vii. 371 Use pipes to offload processing to other UNIX tools.
2001 Enterprise Syst. Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 14 JXTA is designed to address this by using what are called ‘pipes’ to establish uni-directional, asynchronous communication between peers. The pipes will support binary code, data strings, Java technology-based objects and applets.
IV. A device for smoking tobacco or other drugs.
27.
a. A device for smoking tobacco, etc., usually consisting of a narrow tube with a bowl at one end to contain the tobacco, the smoke from which is drawn into the mouth through the tube. Also: a quantity of tobacco sufficient to fill the bowl. Cf. tobacco-pipe n.In phrases such as to smoke a pipe, to light a pipe, etc., pipe is treated as including the tobacco smoked as well as the pipe itself.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe
pipe1588
tobacco-pipe1596
gage1676
gun1708
tube1736
steamer1811
gum-bucket1893
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > quantity smoked in
pipe1588
pipeful1602
gage1676
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. C3 They vse to take the fume or smoke thereof by sucking it through pipes made of claie into their stomacke and heade.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. P5v The fume taken in a Pipe, is good against Rumes, Catarrhs, hoarsenesse.
1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 37 He must haue his pipe of Tobacco.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 205 Because of the long pipes, the smoake is exceeding cold in their swallowing throates.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 168 Now every Plow-man has his Pipe to himself.
1708 S. Sewall Diary 1 Nov. (1973) I. 607 Govr calls and smokes a pipe with my wife at night.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 317 I smoaked a pipe after supper.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 157 She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a lunt.
1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 183 When the guests are all arranged, the pipe is lighted, and the indispensable ceremony of smoking succeeds.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 247 The guns were laid down, and the pipe was lighted.
1873 F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 80 Collarless, bare-armed, unshorn, he puffed coarse boer tobacco from a short clay pipe.
1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold i. 7 I lit a pipe to cheer me.
1952 D. Thomas Llareggub in Botteghe Oscure 9 141 I may smoke one pipe of asthma mixture.
1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin xlvii. 277 Dr Iannis packed his pipe with the lethally acid mixture that passed for tobacco in those days of occupation.
b. pipe of peace n. a North American Indian peace pipe; a calumet; also in extended use. Cf. peace pipe n. at peace n. Compounds 2.Sometimes simply as pipe: see quot. 1823 at sense 27a.
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society > armed hostility > peace > [noun] > pipe of
pipe of peace1698
calumet1717
friend-pipe1775
peace pipe1779
1698 tr. L. Hennepin New Discov. in Amer. i. xxiii. 74 We sent afterwards three Men to buy Provisions in the Village with the Calumet or Pipe of Peace, which the Poutouatami's of the Island had given us.
a1710 P.-E. Radisson Voy. (1885) 207 It was not in common pipes, but in pipes of peace and of the warrs, that they pull out very seldom, when there is occasion for heaven and earth.
1764 S. Foote Lyar i. ii. 13 I had the first honour of smoaking the pipe of peace with the Little Carpenter.
1781 T. Jefferson Addresses 551 I have joined with you sincerely in smoking the pipe of peace.
1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. vi. 91 The chiefs approached with pipes of peace.
1866 Galaxy July 508 Upon Raleigh's suggestion, papa and all of us played a game of whist, as a sort of general pipe of peace.
1873 Overland Monthly Sept. 211 This instrument is not..a blanket, nor a Bible, nor a pipe of peace... It is a sword, the instrument of death.
1924 M. H. Mason Arctic Forests 233 An ancient Indian caught us up, sitting..on a little Yukon sled, smoking the pipe of peace.
1960 D. E. Bublitz Life on Dotted Line 34 There was the smell of burning sweet grass; and the pipe of peace was offered to dancers and guests alike.
2004 Alameda (Calif.) Times-Star (Nexis) 5 Jan. Fremont added a pipe of peace that the eagle carries in its talons to assure the American Indians of his peaceful intentions.
c. A pipe used for smoking drugs, esp. opium or crack cocaine; a pipeful of such drugs. Also: an opium addict (slang). on the pipe: using, or addicted to, drugs. See also to hit the pipe at hit v. 23a.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs > equipment for taking opium
pipe1779
layout1869
hop toy1881
toy1881
yen hock1882
yen siang1882
hop-pipe1887
yen hop1901
cooker1905
cooking spoon1917
stem1925
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict > addicted to opium
pipe1779
pipe-fiend1889
opiumate1894
hop fiend1898
hophead1911
hoppy1922
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 384 Malays mix liquid opium with a certain herb called madat, and this they smoke in a large pipe.
1847 R. Fortune Three Years' Wanderings China xii. 241 These infatuated people may be seen..laughing and talking wildly under the effects of a first pipe.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It liv. 395 With their lustreless eyes turned inward from excess of satisfaction—or rather the recent smoker looks thus, immediately after having passed the pipe to his neighbor.
1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 251/1 Pipe, person under the influence of intoxicants.
1926 J. Black You can't Win xix. 300 I..learned he had been ‘on the pipe’ only three months.
1945 T. Rowan Strangers on Ophir 68 The honest Chinese limits himself to his one pipe of ‘Twang’ per night.
1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xi. 95 Max insisted that they go on to Madame Phnom's plush smoking establishment for a pipe or two.
1993 D. Coyle Hardball v. viii. 283 Until a few weeks before, his father had been on the pipe. Now he was in a rehab program, trying to straighten himself out.
28. North American colloquial (originally and chiefly Canadian). A spell of travelling between two rest periods during each of which a pipe may be smoked; the distance covered or the time taken between two such periods, as a rough measure. Also: a rest period during which a pipe may be smoked; the distance covered while smoking a pipe. Now historical.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a stage in a journey
mansiona1382
journey1490
gests1550
jessa1593
stage1603
stade1616
manzil1619
skoff1785
pipe1793
leg1898
lap1932
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > distance travelled whilst smoking pipe
pipe1793
1793 J. Macdonell Diary 5 July in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 92 Leaving pointe au père we paddled two pipes and put to shore to give the men time to clean themselves.
1799 I. Weld Trav. N. Amer. xxix. 262 A pipe, in the most general acceptation of the word, seemed to be about three quarters of an English mile.
1806 S. Fraser Jrnl. 29 May (1960) 193 The men are better off and better pleased than if they ate a little at every Pipe.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. viii. 189 He arrived at Fort Amsterdam in little less than a month, though the distance was full two hundred pipes, or about 120 miles.
1848 R. M. Ballantyne Hudson's Bay iv. 77 The men used to row for a space of time, denominated a pipe, so called from the circumstance of their taking a smoke at the end of it.
1933 J. Rolyat Wilderness Walls 40 The code of voyaging had made provisions for two full meals only in twenty-four hours..(and a ‘pipe’ of five minutes at intervals, if one smoked).
1953 W. B. Mowery Sagas of Mounted Police 53 This evening we pitch off. We leave hyas quick—in half a pipe.
2003 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 Sept. 15 Trappers and traders measured such journeys in ‘pipes’—the number of smoking stops made between paddling.
29. humorous. the Queen's Pipe (and variants): an incinerator for burning contraband tobacco and other impounded goods.Originally referring to a furnace situated in the London docks.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for destroying refuse or contraband
King's (Queen's) tobacco-pipe1596
the Queen's Pipe1843
cremator1881
destructor1881
bagasse-burner1883
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 17/2 The damaged tobacco..is consumed in a furnace..jocularly termed the ‘queen's tobacco-pipe’.
1851 Harper's Mag. Mar. 515/2 Here the Queen's Pipe smokes all up, except the greater quantity of the tea, which, having some time ago set the chimney of the kiln on fire, is now rarely burnt.
1871 Echo 25 Jan. If the sale is not brisk, then her Majesty's tobacco-pipe, which smokes tobacco by the ton, is likely soon to be well filled. This ‘pipe’, or furnace, is at the London Docks, and in it vast quantities of tobacco..that have failed to sell in the Government sales, are burnt.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 3/2 The rubbish which had got packed with the leaf..goes to fill the Queen's pipe—is, in fact, burned.
1904 Daily News 28 June 6 ‘The King's Pipe’... The disorderly heaps of fuel included ‘heads’ of American tobacco.., Turkish leaves strung on a string, fragments of packing cases, and general litter.
1927 Daily Express 6 Apr. 11 The King's Pipe is the only dramatic feature of the world's largest warehouse. They used to call it the Queen's Pipe in Victorian times.
1994 Daily Rec. (Nexis) 17 Jan. 15 The tobacco is burnt with drugs in secret incinerators around the country. Officially they're known as the Queen's Warehouses, but customs men call them the Queen's pipe.

Phrases

†P1. figurative to put (also pack) up one's pipes and variants: to cease from action, desist; to stop speaking. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)]
i-swikec893
swikec897
atwindc1000
linOE
studegieOE
stintc1175
letc1200
stuttea1225
leavec1225
astint1250
doc1300
finec1300
blina1325
cease1330
stable1377
resta1382
ho1390
to say or cry ho1390
resta1398
astartc1400
discontinuec1425
surcease1428
to let offc1450
resista1475
finish1490
to lay a straw?a1505
to give over1526
succease1551
to put (also pack) up one's pipes1556
end1557
to stay (one's own or another's) hand1560
stick1574
stay1576
to draw bridle1577
to draw rein1577
to set down one's rest1589
overgive1592
absist1614
subsista1639
beholdc1650
unbridle1653
to knock offa1657
acquiesce1659
to set (up) one's rest1663
sista1676
stop1689
to draw rein1725
subside1734
remit1765
to let up1787
to wind (up) one's pirna1835
to cry crack1888
to shut off1896
to pack in1906
to close down1921
to pack up1925
to sign off1929
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 148 Than maye the B[ishop] of Rome put up his pypes.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. C2v He could haue found in his heart to haue packt vp his pipes & to haue gone to heauen.
a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 102/1 Put up your Pipes: to bed sir.
1648 E. Davies Writ of Restitution 6 A Writ of Restitution produced, brought in Court, stops the Lyons mouthes, forced to put up their pipes.
1686 Hickes's Coffee-house Jests (ed. 4) 132 The Farmer and his Daughter seeing they could not help themselves, put up their Pipes and went Home.
a1758 A. Ramsay Eagle & Robin 49 Poke up your pypes, be nae mair sene At court.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 100 Put up your pipes, and gang your gait.
P2. †to set up one's pipes: to cry out, shout, yell (obsolete). †to take a pipe (Scottish): to weep, cry (obsolete). to tune one's pipe (Scottish): to begin to cry, to start wailing. Cf. pipe v.1 8, piping n.1 1b.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > cry or exclaim [verb (intransitive)]
remeeOE
ropeOE
gredec1000
epec1175
yeiec1175
ascry1352
to cry out1382
to lift (up) a cry, one's voice1382
cryc1384
outcryc1390
yawlc1400
openc1425
bursta1450
yelp?c1450
escry1483
assurd1523
to break forth1526
gaure1530
to call out?1532
exclaim1570
reclaim1611
voice1627
blathe1640
to set up one's pipes1671
bawze1677
sing1813
Great-Scott1902
yip1907
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)]
greetc725
weepc900
tearc950
plore1373
beweepc1374
to put one's finger in one's eye1447
waterc1450
lachryme1490
cryc1532
lerma1533
tricklec1540
to water one's plants1542
to show tears1553
shower1597
issuea1616
lachrymate1623
sheda1632
pipe1671
to take a pipe1671
to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789
twine1805
to let fall1816
whinnya1825
blub1866
slobber1875
blart1896
skrike1904
water-cart1914
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 381 They did not speak softly, but set up their pipes aloud.
1728 Street-robberies, Consider'd 10 I [sc. an abandoned baby] began to Whindle, and Tune my Pipes.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. i. v. 23 Setting up my pipes, as if he had flead me.
1774 H. Brooke Juliet Grenville (Dublin ed.) I. 37 When I had kissed and caressed it [sc. a baby] for some time, it began to set up the pipes.
1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 155 He's takin a pipe to himsel at the house-end..his heart..is as saft as a snaw-ba'.
1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin iii. 26 The first thing I did was to assist Chirstie to tune her pipes, an' a magnificent chorus the twa o' us made.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. (at cited word) Pipes, He's tunan his pipes said of a child crying.
P3.
a. colloquial (chiefly Scottish). to put a person's pipe out: to foil, thwart, or frustrate a person. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
1720 A. Ramsay Wealth (new ed.) 5 Upmost to Day, the Morn their Pipe's put out.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiv. 298 (heading) James Crawley's Pipe is put out.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker x. 168 I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend.
1968 Sc. National Dict. at Pipe When one clinches an argument with words that cannot be gainsaid, he will declare of his opponent that ‘I fairly pat his pipe oot.’
b. colloquial. put that in your pipe and smoke it and variants: accept or put up with what has been said or done, even if it is unwelcome.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > challenge or challenging > expressing challenge [phrase]
put that in your pipe and smoke it1800
1800 J. Alexander Acct. First Symptoms Rebellion Wexford App. I. 129 Af yew don't prent them, fwhy—Na bocklesh! That's all! Put that in your pipe and shmoak it!
1824 R. B. Peake Americans Abroad (1884) i. i. 4/2 Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 7 Pull him up—put that in his pipe—like the flavour—damned rascals.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xli I'll give you something to put in both your pipes.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. ix. 81 The noble owner put this opinion in his pipe and smoked it for a year.
1947 W. S. Maugham Creatures of Circumstance 296 I'm engaged to her, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
1977 A. Hunter Gently Instrumental x. 136 There's a dozen witnesses, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it.
1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) iv. 71 You can tell them Miss Lily Daniels has news for them and the news is that the Daniels family aren't going anywhere and they can put that in their pipe and smoke it.
P4. figurative. to lay pipe.
†a. Politics slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). To manipulate an election, esp. bringing in as voters persons not legally qualified to vote, or by voting oneself in this way; also to lay pipes. Cf. pipe-laying n. Obsolete. [Use of the word in this sense arises from a political scandal in 1838, in which the Common Council of New York brought in hundreds of labourers ostensibly to lay water pipes, but in reality so that they could vote, and hence keep the Council in power.]
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (intransitive)] > practise electoral corruption
to lay pipes1840
1838 Amer. Monthly Mag. Mar. 279 He [sc. the political quidnunc] having..serious business on hand, perhaps the election of the next mayor..is engrossed by vast plans for the public good, probably..laying pipes in front of his own door.]
1840 N.Y. Herald 26 Oct. 2/1 A disposable force of 5000 men..who were put up to the highest bidder, and driven about from town to town like cattle, to the polls, voting as often as they could—and ‘laying pipe’ in every city and in every ward.
1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 169 The gentlemen who succeed in appropriating these small measures will be laying down very good ‘pipe’ for Leeds, Southampton, &c.
1893 Home Missionary Oct. 305 The Irish..who began by laying our water-pipes..now lay a different kind of pipe, and make our city government.
b. U.S. slang. Of a man: to have sexual intercourse, esp. vigorously.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse > specifically of a man
to hit the master-vein1592
possess1592
to get one's leg over1599
roger1763
to have one's way with1884
to dip (one's) wick1958
to lay pipe1967
1934 J. Oden in M. Leadbitter & N. Slaven Blues Records 570 (title of song) Pipe Layin' Blues.]
1967 E. Liebow in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out (1972) 405 Descriptive phrases such as ‘I really laid some pipe last night’ tend to replace the more specific, denotative labels for intercourse.
1971 B. Malamud Tenants 80 That chick... I wouldn't mind laying some pipe in her pants.
2000 M. Herman Purely Belter 152 Take her under that tree there, warm her up... Then lay pipe like there's no tomorrow.

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a. (In sense 1.)
† pipe-clang n. Obsolete
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1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xx. 249 Pipe-clang and bugle-sound.
b. (In sense 3.)
pipe bending n.
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1874 Subject-matter Index Patents 1790–1873 (U.S. Patent Office) II. 1048 Pipe-bending machine.
1984 J. Worthington & D. Knight Home Plumbing 22/1 With larger diameter pipe or if you have a number of bends to make, you will find the pipe bending machine much easier.
pipe-casting n.
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1842 Penny Mag. June 253/2 A small melting-furnace is appropriated for the pipe-casting.
2000 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 22 Dec. a28 A Union City foundry whose pipe-casting operation was ordered shut down after a pair of explosions injured a dozen workers.
pipe coating n.
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1916 Manitoba Free Press 5 Feb. 4/3 The removal of tubercles from the steel pipe is difficult and would damage the protective pipe coating.
1992 MER (Marine Engineers Rev.) Nov. 57/2 The limitations of reel tubing for offshore pipelines are likely to be very large pipe diameters and pipe coatings.
pipe founder n.
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a1703 R. Hooke Present State Nat. Philos. in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 25 We may refer [to] the History of..Pewterers, Pipe or Worm-founders, Organ Pipe-makers.
1850 Times 11 Nov. 2/1 (advt.) Borough of Salford.—To Pipe Founders.—The Corporation of Salford are desirous to receive Tenders for Cast-Iron Pipes.
1903 Sandusky (Ohio) Evening Star 20 June 3/5 J. B. Clow and Son pipe founders have accepted the offer..to cast and furnish a new special pipe.
1951 Foundry Trade Jrnl. 1 Feb. 131/1 This is the type of template that usually arrives at the pipe-founders for the people concerned to work from.
pipe founding n.
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1880 Times 20 Sept. 7/6 The iron trade and most of the heavier branches, with the exception of bridge-making and pipe-founding, continue dull.
1934 Times 21 Mar. 22/4 If our remaining staple industries follow..calico printing, cotton spinning, and pipe founding.
pipe foundry n.
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1851 Sci. Amer. 26 July 360 The following account of casting metal pipes is taken from the ‘Glasgow Mail’, and we may safely infer that this is the largest iron pipe foundry in the world.
1918 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 32 298 This same report notes operations at a certain pipe foundry.
2004 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 7 Aug. 6 He was a retired maintenance worker for a pipe foundry and was a Navy veteran of World War II.
pipe jointer n.
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1895 Birmingham Weekly Post 16 Mar. 4/8 There are plenty of excavators, but the pipe jointers are very scarce.
1987 Statutory Instruments i. 92 A skilled building and civil engineering worker means..an excavation operative, including a heading driver, a manhole builder, a pipe layer, a pipe jointer and a timberman.
pipe-manufacturing n.
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1877 Oakland (Calif.) Daily Evening Tribune 30 June The North Beach Cement Pipe Manufacturing Company of San Francisco.
2002 India Weekly 26 Apr. 13/1 At least one Chinese firm has tied up with a major pipe-manufacturing company.
c. (In sense 27.)
(a)
pipe lover n.
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1906 N.E.D. at Pipe sb.1 Pipe-lover.
2002 Business Traveler (Nexis) 1 Oct. 48 Zigarren Durr (Bahnhofplatz 6) is a paradise for cigar and pipe lovers.
pipe smoke n.
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1827 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed i. 71 Without, well-pleased pedestrians trill the song, Or puff their pipe-smoke on some gabbling throng.
1991 J. Levesque Rosseter's Memory i. 14 She worried about pipe smoke poisoning the baby's lungs.
pipe-smoker n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > smoker > pipe-smoker
piper1632
pipeman1785
pipe-smoker1841
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xiii. 8 To be looked upon as a common pipe-smoker, beer-bibber.
1994 Fiddlehead Autumn 10 He..gave me duplicates of all the pipe-smoker's paraphernalia that he used.
pipe tobacco n.
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1751 London Mag. Aug. 384/2 1025 arobes of pipe tobacco.
1875 Times 29 May 7/2 Complaints have lately been made by smokers of the presence of such extraneous matter as straw, hairs, and cabbage-leaves in the Government cigars and pipe tobacco.
1999 I. Tyrrell Deadly Enemies i. i. 12 Nailrod was a type of rolled tobacco, Shag a coarse cut, Negrohead a twist, and Honey Dew a pipe tobacco sweetened with molasses.
pipe whiff n.
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1846 R. Browning Let. June in Browning's Corr. xiii. 90 Between two huge pipe-whiffs.
1934 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 7 June 4/3 It might have been any restaurant a pipe whiff from Broadway.
(b)
† pipe-drawn adj. Obsolete
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1761 C. Churchill Rosciad 16 Thus sportive boys, around some bason's brim, Behold the pipe-drawn bladders circling swim.
† pipe-puffed adj. Obsolete
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a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 710 Through his Pipe-puft Nose more Smoake they wave, Then all the Chimnies their great Houses have.
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pipe bag n. the bag of a set of bagpipes, used as a reservoir for air.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe > bag
pipe bag1615
bladder1717
windbag1838
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 93 Pipe could he not..His pipe-bagge torne, no wind it could keepe in.
1906 ‘H. Foulis’ Vital Spark xiv. 102 There's nothing will put a pipe bag in trum but some treacle poured in by the stock.
2000 Financial Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. 1 Ten years ago the company's Scottish arm developed a membrane pipe bag called the Canmore which remained supple without the need for..regular ‘seasoning’.
pipe band n. a band consisting of pipers, usually also with drummers and a drum major.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of
waits1298
consort1587
wait player1610
wind music1650
the fiddles1676
military band1775
German band1819
street band1826
brass band1834
promenade band1836
horn-band1849
pipe band1867
wind-band1876
Hungarian band1882
jazz band1916
jazz orchestra1916
big band1919
road band1922
Schrammel quartet1924
showband1926
spasm band1926
dance-band1927
marching band1930
name band1932
ork1933
silver band1933
sweet band1935
Schrammel orchestra1938
pop band1942
jug band1946
steel band1949
rehearsal band1957
skiffle band1957
ghost band1962
support band1969
support group1969
scratch band1982
1867 Edinb. Evening Courant 14 June 2/6 The pipe band of the Queen's Brigade..enlivened the gathering.
1987 Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 13/7 The Kachin..have their own pipe band and go into battle against the Burmese playing among other things ‘Scotland the Brave’.
pipe bearer n. an attendant who bears the pipe of a chief, ruler, official, etc.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > one who carries a pipe
pipe bearer1763
chiboukchy1834
pipeman1834
1763 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan 31 His Hookah (or pipe) bearer.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxi. 602 The turbaned official who comes, attended by his secretary and pipe-bearer, to pay you a visit of ceremony.
1997 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Dec. a3 ‘Everything is finally coming back’, said George Shield, an Assiniboine pipe bearer.
† pipe beetle n. Obsolete rare a beetle of the family Curculionidae, characterized by an elongated snout or rostrum; a weevil (snout beetle); cf. piper n.1 3a.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Curculionidae or genus Curculio > member of (weevil)
weevilc725
gurgolionc1420
boudc1440
malt boud1440
malt-worm1440
minta1500
weezela1533
kis1658
pope1658
pipe beetle1712
piper1712
hog-beetle1758
rhynchophore1875
1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 344 One of the largest kind of Curculio or Pipe Beetles yet seen.
pipe bender n. a machine or device used for or in bending or moulding a metal pipe.
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1864 Sci. Amer. 23 Dec. 411/4 Pipe bender.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 683/2 Pipe Bender, a mandrel consisting of a strong closely-wound steel helix of uniform exterior diameter and somewhat longer than the pipe to be bent. This is thrust into the pipe and keeps it from being distorted.
1992 Pract. Householder Nov. 28/2 Pipe benders are worthwhile for jobs such as central heating where slow bends are preferable to fittings.
pipe berth n. Nautical a light canvas bed used in yachts and other small vessels, having a hinged frame of metal tubes designed to be folded away.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship > cot or pipe cot
cot1769
pipe berth1900
pipecot1946
1900 Sandusky (Ohio) Daily Star 11 Nov. 3/3 On the starboard side there will be..accommodations for one man with a pipe berth forward of galley.
1999 Canad. Yachting June 35/3 A simple pipe berth on either side provides a spot for resting.
pipe bomb n. a bomb made by packing explosives and projectiles into a metal pipe (cf. slightly earlier gas-pipe bomb n. at gas pipe n. Compounds).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > home-made bomb
pipe bomb1886
1886 Wisconsin State Reg. 24 July About 100 of the bombs were made there,..part of which were sperical [sic] bombs and part ‘pipe’ bombs.
1888 Freeborn County (Minnesota) Standard 25 July 9/4 There was one pipe bomb about four inches long and an inch and a half in diameter.
1990 K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus xxxix. 286 The judge who acquitted him was killed... Somebody sent him a pipe bomb concealed in a huge salami.
pipe bowl n. the rounded end of a pipe in which the tobacco, etc., is burnt; the amount such a bowl contains.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > bowl of pipe
pipe head1745
pipe bowl1766
1766 Use of Shooting Flying 11 It is a common practice in this country to load with a pipe bowl of powder, and a bowl and a half of shot.
1849 H. Melville Redburn liv. 342 Another device adopted to alleviate their hardships, was the substitution of dried tea-leaves, in place of tobacco... There was no lack of material to supply every pipe-bowl among us.
1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xviii. 163 He fiddled some baccy into his pipe bowl.
pipe-burial n. Archaeology a burial in which a pipe (usually of lead) passes from the coffin or the tomb to the surface of the ground, allowing libations to be poured in.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [noun] > burial in specific type of tomb
tumulation1623
urn-burial1658
house burial1863
mound burial1865
tree-burial1901
pipe-burial1929
1929 Antiquaries Jrnl. 9 1 (heading) A Roman pipe-burial from Caerleon, Monmouthshire.
1997 Britannia 28 496 It is also worth mentioning a pipe-burial with an inhumation, lead urns, face pots, tettines, wasters, and the fact that a large proportion of vessels are small examples of their types.
pipe case n. a case for a tobacco pipe or its bowl.
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1838 Times 12 Sept. 7/1 The buckle of his braces was melted, and his pipe-case became as it were soldered to the handle of his knife, both being in the same pocket.
1995 Virginian-Pilot (Nexis) 3 Mar. 12 Phone, pipe, pipe case stolen between 8 and 10 p.m.
pipe ceremony n. (among some North American Indian peoples) a ceremony involving ritual pipe smoking; cf. sense 27b.Such ceremonies are held for various reasons, such as offering prayers or to seal a covenant.
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1873 Anglo-Amer. Times 5 Apr. 13/2 All [the warriors] came in. A big fire was built, the pipe ceremony gone through with again, and then Jack said that he wanted to talk first.
1920 A. B. Skinner Med. Ceremony of Menomini, Iowa & Wahpeton Dakota 279 After the sweat-bath the leaders hold a brief pipe ceremony.
2017 S. E. Griest All Agents & Saints xx. 263 Some tribes started getting inundated by spiritual seekers hoping to try out their sweat lodges, vision quests, pipe ceremonies, and dances.
† pipe-champer n. Obsolete a person who chews on a tobacco pipe.
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1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 431. ⁋3 These craving Damsels..Pipe-champers, Chalk-lickers, Wax-nibblers [etc.].
pipe chaplet n. Founding a chaplet (chaplet n. 5) used in the casting of pipes, consisting of a concave semi-cylindrical load-bearing surface supported on a stem.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould > parts or accessories of mould
flask1697
sharp1703
core1728
oddside1836
drawback1843
cope1856
nowel1864
rapping plate1876
prod1888
knock-out1893
undercut1909
hot top1917
tundish1926
pipe chaplet1934
natch1941
parting1967
1934 J. Laing & R. T. Rolfe Man. Foundry Pract. iii. 57 Pipe-chaplets..can be obtained, either in the form illustrated, or with short pointed stems, their chief purpose being to support pipe cores in position.
1960 R. Lister Decorative Cast Ironwork ii. 26 Of the types in regular use, special mention may be made of the pipe chaplet.., usually made of tinned wrought iron.
pipe clamp n. (a) = pipe vice n.; (b) North American a clamp used in woodwork, consisting of two jaws whose position can be varied along the length of a threaded steel pipe.
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1865 Sci. Amer. 2 Sept. 157/1 (advt.) Peace's Patent Pipe Clamp and Patent Combined Screwing and Cutting-off Stock.
1991 Do it Yourself Fall 45/2 Clamp the second board to the first using pipe clamps.
† pipe-coal n. Obsolete rare (a) powdered coal or coal dust formed into tubular briquettes; (b) coal occurring in seams a few inches thick.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > coal-derived fuel
coal ball1603
pipe-coal1612
hotshot1673
hotshoot1704
fireball1735
brickette1806
briquette1884
coal slurry1912
slurry1913
semi-coke1918
Phurnacite1937
syncrude1971
1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiv. 98 Tempering, stamping, and comixing of Sea-cole, or Stone-cole, that a kinde of substance being there made of them like vnto past or tempered clay, the Presse-mould may forme and tranfigure that clay-like substance into hollow pipe-cole as it doth earthen pipes.
1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 4 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) There is in some Colleries 7 or 8 sorts of Coal. There are the Pipe-Coal, which perhaps is not above 4 or six Inches thick.
pipe coral n. = organ-pipe coral n. at organ pipe n. Compounds.
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1757 Compend. Most Approved Mod. Trav. II. 115 The greatest curiosities about this place are the shell-fish of the Red-Sea, which differ from every other marine production; the red pipe coral, and some fungous sea plants.
1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger II. viii. 4 Small pieces of pipe coral were stuck in the lobe of each ear.
1993 Aquarist & Pondkeeper Oct. 28/2 Algae of various kinds are growing..and Pipe Corals are starting to spread onto the new rocks.
pipecot n. = pipe berth n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship > cot or pipe cot
cot1769
pipe berth1900
pipecot1946
1946 Times 7 May 1/3 All mahogany cabin: two berths, 1 pipe cot, hanging cupboard, dressing table, w.c., galley.
1997 Classic Boat May 65/1 We heard how six-month-old Jim would sleep soundly in the forepeak pipecot while his parents entertained friends in Viking's saloon.
pipe coupling n. Engineering a coupling for joining two pipes together, or for attaching a pipe to something else.
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1856 Sci. Amer. 2 May 266/1 A pipe coupling has been made so that the expansion of a long pipe may be made to close, or partially close, the opening between it and its fellow.
1996 Sun-Sentinel (Nexis) 8 Apr. 15 Products on display will include..amphibious bicycles, multifex pipe couplings, [etc].
pipe course n. College slang an easy course; cf. sense 25b.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy > easy way or method
primrose path1604
primrose waya1616
line of least resistance1746
plain sailing1756
royal road1793
plane sailing1850
pipe course1923
1923 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 27 Oct. 6/8 To keep the standard of work high and so eliminate any idea that ‘Home Ec’ is a ‘pipe course’.
1951 M. Shulman Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1953) 105 A pipe course is a course where students can get passing grades without doing much work. This is not a pipe course.
2000 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 12 Jan. a2 The cry came from the back, from a guy who'd meant to enroll in a pipe course but found himself bitten forever by the journalism bug.
pipe cutter n. Engineering a tool or machine for cutting pipes.
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1860 Sci. Amer. 2 Jan. 13/2 James R. Brown, of Boston, Mass., assignor to himself and J. Henry Norton, of Medford, Mass., for an Improved Pipe-cutter.
1990 Pract. Householder Apr. 58/3 Pipes can be cut with a junior hacksaw, though a pipe cutter is faster and leaves a neater end.
pipe driver n. a machine for driving pipes into the ground to create a tube well.
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1869 Sci. Amer. 19 June 397/3 Pipe driver. L. M. Rumsey and W. P. Smith, St. Louis, Mo.
2002 Public Wks. (Nexis) 1 May 24 While being driven into the soil with a pneumatic pipe driver, the injection pipe would quickly drop as much as two ft as it passed through large soil voids.
pipe ear n. a projecting flat part of a pipe, having a hole by which it may be fixed to a wall.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > other parts of pipes
bum1570
nipple1574
rider1728
shoe1770
nose-pipe1787
tack1823
box valve1833
bell end1851
taft1877
taft joint1891
pipe ear1905
spud1905
1905 Athenæum 29 Apr. 534/1 The fronts of pipe-heads and the pipe ears were often heraldically treated.
1992 Family Handyman (Nexis) Feb. 46 Shut off the water supply to the toilet... Remove the flapper from the overflow pipe ‘ears’.
pipe-fiend n. U.S. slang a person addicted to smoking opium or (in later use) crack cocaine.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict > addicted to opium
pipe1779
pipe-fiend1889
opiumate1894
hop fiend1898
hophead1911
hoppy1922
1889 N.Y. Times 26 July 2/4 Three ‘pipe fiends’ were arrested, and a large quantity of pipes, needles, and opium was seized.
1913 G. J. Kneeland Commercialized Prostitution N.Y. iv. 90 One of the best known [pimps] is a..dangerous fellow... A ‘pipe fiend’ and gambler, his favorite occupation is ‘stuss’.
1993 R. Shell iCED 34 Now the only ladies that approach me are other pipe-fiends and church ladies trying to save my soul.
pipe-fill n. now rare (a) (perhaps) an implement for filling a pipe; (b) tobacco for smoking in a pipe; (c) an act of filling a pipe.
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1898 Traralgon (Victoria) Record 25 Oct. He came upon a few shreds of tobacco, the nicotine-soaked end of a pipe fill, and three matches.
1907 Daily Chron. 15 Mar. 6/7 At Oxford this writer bought the finest pipe-fill he has known.
1935 Daily Mail 4 Feb. 25/4 (advt.) Pipe-filling by hand is difficult... Old Castle Ready-fills do cut out the difficulty... And every pipe-fill will be as an expert's job.
pipe-foot n. the lower part of a flue pipe in an organ, through which the wind is received and conducted; cf. foot n. 11c.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Pipe-foot, in organ-building, the lower part of a flue-pipe.
1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments II. 847/1 Air under pressure from the chest passes through the foot-hole (bore) at the bass [sic] of the pipe-foot.
† pipe glede n. Scottish Obsolete a bird of prey (not identified: perhaps the red kite, Milvus milvus).
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > kites > genus Milvus (kite)
gledec725
kitec725
pittelOE
puttockc1175
milan1484
pipe gledea1525
kite-wolf1607
pew-glede1615
red kite1792
royal kite1792
milvine1885
fork-tail1893
shite-hawk1944
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 642 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 115 The pitill and ye pype gled cryand pewewe.
pipe glove n. rare a soft pouch for a tobacco pipe.
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1925 Daily Tel. 13 May 20/7 (advt.) Pouches,..pipe gloves and cases.
1966 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 13/7 (advt.) This mellow smoking pipe... In beautiful English gift box and pipe glove.
pipe grab n. a mechanical grab for lifting a conduit pipe out of the ground.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > for grasping pipes or rods
pipe tongs1795
finger grip1820
gas pliers1860
filing-block1874
pipe grab1875
spider1920
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1711/1 Pipe-grab, a tool to let down into a well-pipe to enable it to be hoisted to the surface.
2003 New Equipm. Digest (Nexis) 1 Jan. 42 Rig-Master rigging attachments include extended barrier grabs, aluminum pipe grabs, C-hook fittings, and lifting rings.
pipe holder n. (a) a device for storing or carrying a tobacco pipe; (b) = pipe rack n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > parts supporting pipes
foot1828
rack board1840
pipe holder1847
rack1853
pipe rack1855
rack pillar1876
boot1880
rack pin1881
1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xxvii. 243 I had nearly forgotten the pipe-holder, which hangs round his neck.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 56 These small pipes go first through the holes of the pipe-holders.
1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 357/3 A treen pipe holder, 6 in (15 cm).
† pipe insect n. Obsolete (perhaps) a tube worm; (perhaps) a caddis-fly larva.
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1805 P. Wakefield Domest. Recreat. vi. 93 Animalcules..living in small tubes, or cases of sandy matter, united like pieces of coral; from which..they are called the pipe insect.
pipe joint n. Engineering a joint between two pipes.
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1849 Sci. Amer. 15 Sept. 413/4 Cement for Pipe Joints.
1991 Professional Heating Sept. 61/4 This cold weld compound has many practical applications from sealing pipe joints and leaks to major repairs such as cracked baths.
pipe key n. a key with a hollow barrel which fits over a pin in a lock; cf. pipe lock n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > key > other types of key
piped keyc1520
pipe key1540
pass-key1633
rose key1663
screw key1742
ring-key1761
Chubb1833
keylet1860
card key1951
key card1966
1540 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for a pype key ijd.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 175 They are..most frequently made as the door-locks, to turn with a pipe-key.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pipe key, same as piped key.
1926 F. J. Butter Locks & Lockmaking i. 10 Most of the keys in use are of three kinds: (1) pipe keys, if there is a hole in the stem [etc.].
2001 B. Phillips Compl. Bk. Locks & Locksmithing (ed. 5) 536 The hollow fits over a pin in a lock keyway and helps keep the key aligned. The key is also known as a hollow post key or a pipe key.
† pipe-lees n. Obsolete tobacco ash remaining in the bottom of a pipe after smoking; cf. dottle n.2 1b.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > quantity smoked in > ash remaining
dottle1825
pipe-lees1860
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage II. xix. 23 Half-smoked pipe-lees.
pipelight n. a twisted or folded strip of paper used for lighting a pipe.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting
wax tapera1398
match1519
brimstone match1594
card match1654
spunk1755
light1787
spill1821
lighter1828
candle-paper1829
fidibus1829
Promethean1829
sulphur-match1830
pipelight1842
candle-lighter1855
kitchen match1862
spiller1936
1842 Times 29 Dec. 7/5 She added, that she usually got her living by selling pipe-lights at different public houses.
1959 Times 15/4 Our advice to smokers is to use the documents as pipelights.
pipe lighter n. a twisted or folded strip of paper, or a mechanical device, used for lighting a pipe; an attendant who lights a pipe.
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1739 Act 12 Geo. II c. 26 §6 Nothing in this act..shall extend to..thimbles, corral sockets and bells, ferrils, pipe lighters, cranes for bottles, etc.
1868 Overland Monthly July 70/2 The chiefs [in Hawaii] had generally permanent establishments of their own, and held in menial service as officers of the household, ‘purloiners’, ‘assassins’,..‘spittoon carriers’, and ‘pipe lighters’.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 57 Each man had with him one of those tinder pipe-lighters which are ignited by the sparks of a little twirled wheel.
2002 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 29 June b6 The late columnist Charles Lynch used to write about using his pipe lighter to re-ignite the flame when it went out in a windstorm.
† pipe lock n. Obsolete a lock in the form of a hollow cylinder (perhaps with a central pin, fitting a pipe key).
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1463–5 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1904) 10 107 (MED) Item, we payde for a pype locke to ye trente ele dore in ye loft x d.
1527–8 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 32 Ane kee of ane pyp lok.
1629 in S. A. Gillon Sel. Justiciary Cases (1953) I. 101 Thair was nevir pype lok or uther lok or hoill or vestigium upone the dur bot only barris uithin.
† pipe-loop n. Saddlery Obsolete rare a narrow loop used to hold the end of a strap; cf. sense 6.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > rings or loops
ringle1419
torret1429
button?1561
French buckle1691
bridge1795
dee1795
handpiece1840
pirn1846
thill-tug1859
Irish martingale1874
pipe-loop1875
kidney-link1883
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1711/2 Pipe-loop (Harness), a long narrow loop for holding the end of a buckled strap.
pipe macaroni n. macaroni made in the form of long tubes.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pasta > [noun] > types of pasta
macaroona1425
vermicellia1668
macaroni1673
pipe macaroni1778
spaghetti1845
ziti1845
angel hair1890
mezzani1895
pappardelle1899
mostaccioli1904
perciatelli1906
rigatoni1911
orzo1917
penne1919
linguine1920
fettuccine1922
fusilli1929
spag1948
rotini1949
spaghettini1953
rotelle1956
stelline1958
spaggers1960
conchiglie1968
ruote1972
orecchiette1975
manicotti1983
radiatore1986
1778 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) 124 Take half a pound of small pipe-macaroni.
1827 Domest. Econ. & Cookery for Rich & Poor 285 This sughlio is used particularly by the Neapolitans to dress their fine pipe macaroni, which is simmered in it without being broken.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 819 ½ lb. of pipe macaroni.
1914 M. M. Gillmore Meatless Cookery 103 3 ounces pipe macaroni.
1978 Herald-Times-Reporter (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) 16 Aug. 17/2 Macaroni soup. To a rich beef or other soup,..take half a pound of small pipe macaroni, boil it in clear water until it is tender.
pipe major n. chiefly Scottish the leader of a pipe band, or the NCO commanding a regimental pipe band.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician
waitc1325
trumpeter1497
drum?1535
drum major1589
trumpettier1609
drum-major general1676
bugler1792
fife-major1802
pipe major1816
Bugle Major1844
signaller1845
bugle boy1848
trumpet-major1855
bugleman1859
bunting-tosser1905
buzzer1915
music1915
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > pipe-major
pipe major1816
1816 Edinb. Advertiser 17 Sept. 8/1 A veteran serjeant and pipe-major to the Royal Scots regiment.
1874 A. Hislop Bk. Sc. Anecd. 260 The pipe-major of the 92d..proudly sounded the battle air to animate his companions.
1992 Stornoway Gaz. 18 Apr. 9/5 My father's brother..and Snowy, the pipe major, were good friends.
pipe metal n. an alloy for making organ pipes, composed of tin and lead, and sometimes also zinc.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other alloys of tin and lead
silver lead1601
calin1751
pipe metal1756
spotted metal1850
Wood1860
lead-tin1889
1756 W. Tans'ur New Musical Gram. (ed. 3) ii. i. 87 Raising, or falling such Tunets as stand over the Top of the Pipes; which is a little Plate or Bit of Tin, Brass, or Pipe-Metal.
1846 Ladies' Repository Aug. 246/2 If he have left five sound bones in his body, he may know he is not made of pipe metal.
1899 Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio) 20 June 2/3 The ears are two projecting pieces of zinc or pipe metal on each side.
1975 O. Ochse Hist. Organ U.S. xiv. 315 Schoenstein was a skilled voicer, and was capable of making all parts of the organ. He cast his own pipemetal.
† pipe-money n. Obsolete rare money given to a piper for playing.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services
barber feec1380
alnage1418
school fee1512
pinlocka1525
warden-fee1531
wait fee1563
fullage1611
pipe-moneya1637
marriage money1674
sharping-corn1681
spy-money1713
crimpage1732
cooperage1755
stirrup money1757
stub-money1776
membership fee1860
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 70* in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Call Cheeks upon the Bag-pipes, & Tom Ticklefoot with his Tabor... Clod, will you gather the Pipe money?
pipe music n. music for the bagpipes; music for the flute or other wind instruments.
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1814 W. Scott Diary 24 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. vii. 231 These MacCrimmons formerly kept a college in Skye for teaching the pipe-music.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xii. 112 I will add the rest of what I have to say about my friend, that he was skilled in all kinds of music, but principally pipe-music.
1992 Classic CD 25 May 17/1 Unlike Mozart I put flutes in my serenade. They take up ideas associated with Papageno and his pipe music.
pipe-necked adj. having a long slender neck.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > long-necked > slender
pipe-necked1919
1919 J. C. Squire Birds 11 Pipe-necked and stationary and silhouetted, Cormorants stood in a wise, black, equal row.
1999 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 4 Nov. a2 The six-pack of pipe-necked poultry included two stars—Oliver W. Jr. and Cyclone.
pipe note n. a note or sound made by a pipe, or a tone resembling that of a pipe.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of pipe or flute
whistle1447
toodle-loodle1542
toodle-toodlea1566
friddoning1588
pipe note1592
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > cry or call > thin or shrill
pew?a1500
yelping1593
pipe1721
whistle1784
queek1786
peek1834
pipe note1854
wheep1860
1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 156 His apish toyes, His Pedlarie, and pype-notes.
1854 J. S. Bushnan in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. (c1865) I. 293/1 When the male [bird] is alone, its most significant note is the pipe-note witt.
2003 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail (Nexis) 20 Sept. p3 c The organ has 2,600 pipes and is capable of producing 20,000 digital pipe notes.
† pipe ore n. Mining and Geology Obsolete ore occurring in or as pipes (senses 18a, 18d).
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > specific shape
ball-mine1702
pipe ore1709
ball veina1728
kidney ore1750
1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland xiv. 80 When the Vein opens wide in some place, and again closeth, or as the Miners speak, Twitcheth at both Ends, this is called a Belly of Ore, or Pipe-Ore.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 163 Pipe-ore, iron ore (limonite) in vertical pillars, sometimes of conical, sometimes of hour-glass form.
1884 Science 4 July 25/1 The pipe ores occur usually higher in the limestone... These ores occur in situ between parallel walls of limestone, in plate-like masses, scales, or as cylindrical pipes.
† pipe oven n. Obsolete a hot-blast furnace in which the air is passed through pipes heated in the furnace.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 684/2 Pipe oven, a hot blast oven in which the air passes through pipes exposed to the heat of the furnace.
pipe playing n. †(a) the action of playing with a tobacco pipe (obsolete (apparently an isolated use)); (b) the action of playing a pipe or set of bagpipes.
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a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 70 Pipe-playing, dallying.
1803 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. II Pibyziaethu, To practise pipe-playing.
1884 Times 5 Sept. 7/5 The sports engaged in at the gathering were of the kind common to these Highland meetings, including pipe playing.
2003 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 4 Oct. 63 Getting practical is easy with workshops in clog dancing and pipe playing, seminars with the Northumbrian Orchestra [etc.].
† pipe privet n. Obsolete rare lilac, Syringa vulgaris; cf. sense 14b, pipe tree n. 1.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. lvii. 1213 Of the white and blew pipe Priuets.
pipe prover n. Engineering a device for testing the strength and soundness of steam or water pipes by hydraulic pressure.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1711/2 Pipe-prover, an apparatus for the purpose of proving steam and water pipes by means of hydraulic pressure.
1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 196/3 Further sections give detailed advice on calibrating and operating pipe provers.
pipe reducer n. Engineering a pipe coupling larger at one end than at the other, for connecting two pipes of different diameter.
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1883 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 9 Feb. Twenty-five feet of hose, one stop-cock, two tunnel cars, one pipe-reducer [etc.].
1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 11 Jan. a6 One resident successfully locates and buys a pipe reducer.
pipe shank n. = pipestem n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > stem of pipe
steal1672
stopple1681
pipe shank1688
shank1688
pipe-stapplea1732
pipestema1734
pipe-stick1833
shaft1841
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 272/1 A Shanking Wyer..is onely a plaine smooth wyer, by which the hole is made through the pipe Shank.
1776 J. Leacock Fall Brit. Tyranny iv. iii There he'll get recruits enough for a hogshead or two of New-England rum, and a few owld pipe-shanks.
a1859 W. Watt Poems & Songs (1860) 236 Ringan, in the twa-arm'd chair, His pipe-shank clears, for suction.
1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 Sept. 13 My back garden was literally full of pipe shanks, heads and mouthpieces.
† pipe-skill n. Scottish Obsolete expertise in playing the bagpipes.
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1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 213 John o' pipe-skill wasna scant.
pipe snake n. any of various tropical burrowing snakes with a head that grades imperceptibly into the body: (a) (more fully Asian pipe snake) an Asian snake of the genus Cylindrophis (family Cylindrophiidae or Uropeltidae); esp. C. rufus, which displays bright under-tail coloration when alarmed; (b) (more fully coral pipe snake) a South American snake, Anilius scytale (family Aniliidae), with bold red and black stripes.
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1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes vii. 179 This type of head-mimicry is practised, for example, by the pipe snake, Cylindrophis rufus.
1971 J. Stidworthy Snakes of World 42 Anilidae. Another small family of burrowing snakes includes the false coral snake and the pipe snakes.
1986 A. F. Gotch Reptiles 123 Asian pipe snake Cylindrophis rufus... Southern India, Sri Lanka, the Burma-Vietnam area and Malaysia.
1986 T. R. Halliday & K. Adler Encycl. Reptiles & Amphibians 119/1 The Coral pipesnake of the Amazon Basin is ringed with red and black, like the coral snakes of that region.
1997 New Scientist 19 Apr. 45/1 Obscure groups, such as the blindsnakes, pipesnakes and filesnakes..generate just as much wonder as the boas, pythons and cobras.
pipespill n. = pipelight n.
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1893 Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gaz. 26 July The captain..took up the plan of a very snug, two-storied cottage... ‘“Providence Cottage”, it shall be, Mrs. Pringle’; and he looked about for a pipe spill.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 508 Pages will be torn from your handbook of astronomy to make them pipespills.
1990 Listener 123 43/4 Pipespill Holder. It's Father's Day again.
pipe stand n. a stand or frame for supporting a pipe or pipes (in various senses); cf. pipe rack n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > pipe-rack
pipe rack1866
pipe stand1879
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > radiator > frame for radiator pipes
pipe stand1879
1879 J. J. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. IV. xii. 458 Works in plain turning... Pipe stands.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 270 From his pipe-stand he reached down a long Hungarian pipe and a long Turkish chibouc.
2003 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 14 Sept. (Homes Plus section) 1 Their wooden bear carved on a pipe stand—complete with old pipes—would do better on the resale market.
pipe stay n. rare a device for holding a conduit pipe in place.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 684/2 Pipe Stay, a device to hold a pipe in place; or to hang a pipe.
1991 T. S. Griffin U.S. Patent 5,072,903 5 Pipe-stay clevis assembly, which is suitable for supporting a pipe from a rod or flange member.
† pipe-stick n. Obsolete a hollow tube used as the stem of a tobacco pipe.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > stem of pipe
steal1672
stopple1681
pipe shank1688
shank1688
pipe-stapplea1732
pipestema1734
pipe-stick1833
shaft1841
1833 J. Auldjo Jrnl. 6 May in Jrnl. Visit to Constantinople (1835) 57 We went..to the pipe-stick bazaar, where I intended to be a purchaser both of amber and cherry sticks.
1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 554/1 Perhaps the most prized are the Agriot or Cherry pipe-sticks of Austria.
pipestill n. a still in which crude oil is heated by passing it through a series of tubes inside a furnace.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > still > [noun] > types of
rose-garland1527
sun still1688
pot still1799
turpentine still1799
still-pota1824
rectifying column1836
patent still1887
stripper1930
pipestill1931
solar still1946
1931 G. Egloff in A. Rogers Industr. Chem. (ed. 5) II. 861 Modern practice used the pipe still consisting essentially of a coil of pipe placed in a furnace through which oil is passed.
2003 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 11 Aug. 15 Because the first continuous plants started up in the early 1910s, surveys in those days included both pipestills and continuous fractionators.
pipe stopper n. a small plug for compressing the tobacco in the bowl of a pipe.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > tamp
stopper1622
tobacco-stopper1664
pipe stopper1734
1734 J. Swift Let. 24 Sept. (1768) IV. 71 He should twirl you about..till all the bones in your skin rattled and snapped like pipe-stoppers in a bladder.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 4 321 Not so thick as your Highness' pipe-stopper.
1940 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 8/6 The pipe stoppers used to tamp tobacco in the pipe bowl will be on view.
1993 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 12 Mar. p2 Pipe stoppers were made of wood, horn, ivory, bone, mother-of-pearl, pewter, silver and brass.
pipe story n. U.S. rare a fantastic or impossible story; cf. pipe dream n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > false or foolish
spellc888
triflea1250
truffc1430
tale of a roasted horse1532
fairy story1687
pipe story1890
fairy tale1896
pishogue1931
1890 Chicago Tribune 26 Feb. 8/3 The story to the effect that ex-Senator Hill has fixed a deal with Senator Teller..is a fairy tale. We call it a ‘pipe story’ in the Wild West.
1904 N.Y. Times 16 Oct. iii. 6 The police are now forced to take what appears on its face to be the veriest pipe story and run it down.
1948 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 16 Oct. 4/3 This is no propaganda pipe story carefully leaked.
pipe tile n. a tile used in the construction of a drainage pipe, sewer, etc.
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1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 299/2 The tide seems not to be running in favour of..pipe-tiles of very small diameter.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 201/2 Experience has proved that the openings between the ends of the sole or pipe tiles are amply sufficient to admit all the water that the pipes can carry away.
1999 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch (Nexis) 14 May 3 d The flooding is an issue for homeowners in Brown Township, where the pipe tiles stretch for about a mile.
pipe tomahawk n. a tomahawk manufactured in such a way that it can also be used as a pipe to smoke tobacco, having a hollow shaft and a pipe-bowl forming the poll at the back of the axe-head; cf. tomahawk pipe n. at tomahawk n. Compounds 2.
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1756 G. Mason Indian Goods in G. Washington Papers (1984) III. 408 Pipe Tom-hawks.
1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 7 Oct. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 249 I also missed my Pipe Tomahawk.
1908 Amer. Anthropologist 10 414 A few old pipe-tomahawks are still treasured by the people as mementos of their ancestors.
2012 J. Garry Weapons Lewis & Clark Exped. vii.113 The fact that Colter recognized the pipe tomahawk five months later would seem to indicate that it was at least somewhat personalized.
pipe tongs n. tongs designed for grasping a pipe or rod.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > for grasping pipes or rods
pipe tongs1795
finger grip1820
gas pliers1860
filing-block1874
pipe grab1875
spider1920
1795 Sale Catal. in Notes & Queries (1951) 14 Apr. 158/2 Iron skewers, pipe tongs, and flesh fork.
1899 Academy 11 Feb. 183/1 A pair of pipe-tongs wherewith the New Englander lifted an outlying coal to light his pipe.
1985 D. Holloway Which? Bk. Plumbing & Central Heating i. 17/1 ‘Pipe tongs’..one of the army of gripping wrenches used for gripping and turning round objects such as iron pipes (but not copper).
pipe track n. a track made during the laying of a pipeline, or for its subsequent servicing; the course of a pipe.
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1850 Times 21 Nov. 2/5 The third of such works, consisting of cuts or channels of communication, pipe-tracks, and widenings of the river.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 87/2 The pipes in use for the great pipe-track are being supplied by a German firm.
2004 Whittlesea (Australia) Leader 24 Sept. 7 The council voted to apply heritage protection to the reservoir's aqueduct and pipe track.
† pipe-twister n. Obsolete = pipe wrench n.
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1879 J. S. Phillips Explorers' & Assayers' Compan. I. 468 Wrench, a turnscrew, or pipe-twister.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pipe-twister, same as pipe-wrench.
1910 R. Cobleigh Handy Farm Devices 263 (caption) Pipe twister.
pipe vein n. †(a) a vein of the body (obsolete (apparently an isolated use)); (b) Mining and Geology = sense 18a, 1d.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > of ore
pipe1635
pipe vein1653
squat1671
body1672
moor1778
ore bed1787
1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 209 By reason of dry, hot, corrupted, or obstructed Livers, we, your Honours Pipe-veines, want filling.
1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland ix. 54 In the late Sir C. M.'s Time..were great quantities of Lead got, in a very rich Pipe-Vein.
1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 243 A Pipe vein..is a cavity, often horizontal nearly, between the beds of limestone..having a narrow rake vein, or rake-leading from it, to the surface of the stratum.
1898 S. H. Cox Prospecting for Min. 113 Cave Deposits..might be subdivided into chambers or pockets, flats or sheets, and pipe veins.
1973 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 14 627 All the gold found in the basin of the Falémé came ultimately from ores that once existed in quartz pipe veins scattered here and there along the ridge line.
pipe vice n. a vice for grasping a pipe or rod.
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1864 Sci. Amer. 2 July 10/3 I claim a pipe vise so constructed as to open to permit the entrance and removal of the pipe in a direction perpendicular to its axis.
1986 F. Guillou & C. Gray in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) v. ii. 711 The conduit system means the use of a considerable number of special tools such as dies, bending machines, pipe vices, and..saws.
pipe vine n. the North American plant Dutchman's pipe, Aristolochia macrophylla.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > North American
woodbine1624
Virginia vine1629
staff-tree1633
Virginia creeper?1703
climbing vine1760
mayflower1778
pepper vine1783
arbutus1785
trailing arbutus1785
pipe vine1803
Ampelopsis1805
ground-laurel1814
waxwork1818
ivory plum1828
fever twig1830
yerba buena1847
mountain pink1850
New England mayflower1855
creeping snowberry1856
Virginian creeper1856
May blossom1871
sand verbena1880
staff-vine1884
1803 A. F. M. Willich & J. Mease Domest. Encycl. (Amer. ed.) IV. 514/2 Another species of Aristolochia (A. Sipho) or pipe-vine, is a curious species of Birthwort, and abounds near the town of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania.
1886 Cent. Mag. May 237/2 Professor Gray's modest house, where wistaria, forsythia, and pipe-vine intertwine their varying greenery.
2003 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 20 May 1 d First a week or so of watching the butterflies gather around the pipe vine, courting and mating and laying eggs.
pipevine swallowtail n. a large North American swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor, which has greenish-black forewings and iridescent bluish-green hindwings and feeds on the pipe vine.
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1905 W. J. Holland Butterfly Bk. 315 Papilio philenor... (The Pipe-vine Swallowtail.)
1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden ix. 173 Recently at the National Arboretum I saw several pipevine swallowtails (which I have never seen in my garden) in garden-variety verbena flowers.
pipe-water n. water channelled through a pipe or conduit.
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the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > conveyed by pipes
pipe-water1466
1466 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 325 (MED) Hit is ordeynet..that the pype water, the wiche with bestes and stoppyng for fishyng ys letted and garred in diverse places, may be made clene.
1730 T. Short Diss. upon Tea 29 I used only Pipe Water.
1835 Times 1 Aug. 2/3 More than 200 voters have now been proved to be in arrear for paving-tax and pipe-water.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 24 Oct. 17/2 I will not live to see pipe-water squirting down sham rocks under a sham bridge.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage Pipe-water, any water drawn from a domestic tap..or from a standpipe.
† pipewood n. Obsolete rare the Florida hobblebush, Agarista populifolia (family Ericaceae), an evergreen shrub of the south-eastern United States, yielding wood used for tobacco pipes; cf. pipestem wood n. at pipestem n. and adj. Compounds.
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1861 A. Wood Class Bk. Bot. 488 Pipe-wood. Lvs. very smooth, rigid ovate and lanceolate, gradually acuminate, entire, on short petioles.
1890 Cent. Dict. at Leucothoë L. acuminata of the South Carolina and Florida coast is called pipewood.
† pipe-worm n. Obsolete (a) a tube worm; (b) a teredo or shipworm.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Sabelliformia > member of
sea-pipe1755
pipe-worm1774
tube-worm1813
tubicole1842
fan worm1851
tube-maker1888
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 48 Pipe-worms and other little animals fix their habitation to the oyster's sides.
1820 T. Tredgold Elem. Princ. Carpentry §356 The bottom of ships, and timbers exposed to the action of the sea, are often destroyed by the pipeworm, or teredo navalis of naturalists.
1865 Ferrum Timber Co. 16 This creature [sc. the Ship Worm], also variously called the Pile-Worm, and Pipe-Worm, is at first very small, but soon acquires considerable size, and is sometimes a foot or more long.
1915 N.E.D. at Tube sb. Tube-worm, a tubiculous worm; a pipe-worm.
pipe wrench n. a tool with one fixed and one movable jaw, used to grip lengths of pipe.
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1859 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 22 Apr. 363/2 Registered Pipe and Nut Wrench.
1992 Family Handyman Jan. 20/1 Usually all you need are a couple of pipe wrenches and joint tape.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pipen.2

Brit. /pʌɪp/, U.S. /paɪp/
Forms: Middle English pip, Middle English pyip, Middle English–1600s pype, Middle English– pipe; also Scottish pre-1700 payp, pre-1700 peip, pre-1700 pip, pre-1700 pyip, pre-1700 pyp, pre-1700 pype, pre-1700 1700s– pipe.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pipe.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French pipe a measure of liquid (a1278 in Old French), a barrel (1306), specific use of pipe (see pipe n.1). Compare post-classical Latin pipa (frequently 1212–1469 in British sources in this sense: see pipe n.1). Compare also Old Occitan pipa (1376 or earlier; Occitan pipa), Catalan pipa (13th cent.), Spanish pipa (1402), Portuguese pipa (1152), all in sense ‘a barrel for storing liquid, esp. wine’, and also Italian pippa (1598 in Florio in sense ‘a measure of liquid’).
1. A large container of definite capacity for storing solids or liquids, such as meat, fish, or oil. Now: spec. a large cask for storing wine or cider. † pipe and puleyn n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) some kind of customary rent.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > large barrel
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1314 Inquisition Post Mortem (P.R.O.: C 134/34/4) m. 10 Reddendo inde ad Castrum Norwici per annum ad festum Sancti Michaelis ij.s ix.d pro quadam cons. vocat. Pipe & Puleyn.
1348 Wardrobe Acct. Edward III in Archaeologia (1846) 31 39 (MED) xj pipe de cupro pro pennis fesaun.
1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 23 (MED) Clerico panetrie..pro runagio xxiiij doliorum et j pipe, ij s. vj d.
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 114/2 Every manere Vessell for Wyne herafter to be made..contene..ye full assise of old tyme used and accustumed, that is to sey, that every Tonne contene xii/xx and xii [252] Galons, and every Pipe vi/xx vi [126] Galons, [etc.].
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xvii. 49 Bridgis..made vpon pipes bounden togider and wel teyed with ropys.
c1559 R. Hall Life Fisher (1655) xxii. 186 His Library, which they found so replenished..with..Books,..with which they trussed up, and filled 32. great fats, or pipes.
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. xi. sig. R iv Sundrie kindes of wine vessels, as the tunne, the pipe, the punshion, hogsheads, buttes, barrels.
1584 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 135 A quarter of a pype of Muscadyn.
1640 Connecticut Rec. I. 448 One chese presse, old hogsheads & a pype.
1682 Art & Myst. of Vintners 78 Then have you Galliack Wines in Pipes and Hogsheads.
1701 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston 10 Every Householder..shall at all times..keep in thier houses yards or back sides, a pipe, hogshed or teirce full of watter.
1761 J. Rowe Lett. & Diary (1903) 388 [I] am Sorry the Last Madeira was Chilly it all came out of one pipe.
1787 N.Y. Daily Advertiser 7 Mar. Old Madeira Wine, in pipes and quarter casks, Jamaica spirits &c.
1829 Govt. Gaz. (Pretoria) 23 Jan. 8 Six fine new six-and-a-half Leaguer Stuckvats, made of blue Staves, common Stuckvats, Leaguers, Pipes, and smaller fustage.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 186 The pint, you brought me, was the best That ever came from pipe.
1905 E. Channing Hist. U.S. II. 174 For their entertainment on landing, Dudley had provided a pipe of wine in a convenient place near the townhouse.
1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 142/2 Cider is best fermented in huge oak or chestnut barrels called ‘puncheons’ and ‘pipes’.
2004 Beverage Dynamics (Nexis) 1 Jan. 29 A 16-year-old single malt with a three wood finishes (American bourbon oak barrels, Spanish Oloroso sherry butts and large old port wine pipes).
2. The contents of a pipe; a liquid (or †solid) measure, esp. of wine, equal to the capacity of a pipe.Typically equal to two hogsheads or 63 wine gallons (105 imperial gallons, approx. 477 litres), but varying with the substance or the kind of wine. Sometimes identified with butt n.4 1.
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1352–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 382 (MED) In primis in 3 pypes vini empt. et in colore et in vino empt. in villa..115 s. 4 d.
1406 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 13 (MED) Y wyt to Iohan Whyte the yongger, & to hys wyfe a pipe of wyne, prys of xl s.
1496 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 166 A pipe of salte bieff redie dressed xls.
a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 138 Ther was gevon to the Duke of Gloucestre..iiij pype wyn.
1560 Let. 5 May in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1598) I. 308 We haue laden..twenty seuen pipes of bastards and seckes, as by the Inuoices herewith inclosed may appeare.
1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 6 The Canary Wines yearly Imported are about 13000 Pipes.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4089/3 One hundred and eighty Pipes or Pieces, of double Spanish Brandy.
1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 55 It is declared that the Tun of Wine, Oil, and Honey, should contain..252 Gallons; the Pipe or Butt 126; the Tertian 84.
1802 Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Reus About 20,000 pipes of brandy are annually exported.
1821 Ld. Byron Let. 1 Mar. (1978) VIII. 87 It never can be replaced in proper frame, Spoilt, as a pipe of Claret is when pricked.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 1/3 We have thousands of pipes of wine at Oporto, and the lodges cover acres of ground.
1903 Whitaker's Almanack 453 Of wines imported in casks the following are the usual measurements: Pipe of Port or Masdeu = 115 gallons, of Teneriffe = 100 g., of Marsala = 93 g., of Madeira and Cape = 92 g., of Sherry and Tent = 108 g.
1989 Decanter Nov. 43/3 Annual production is at present about 150 pipes.

Compounds

† pipe-board n. Obsolete a wooden board used to make a cask.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > for other uses
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box board?1793
1386 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 247 [In 1386 we find 761 feet of] ‘pipebord’ [bought for boarding a bridge at Westminster.]
1594 H. R. Newes Leuane Seas 5 Where our Shallop tooke a Caruill, laden with pype bordes and hoopes.
1609 Rates Marchandizes sig. K2v Pipe-holt, or Pipe-bords the C. cont. six score, xx.s.
1821 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) ii. 303 Pipe Boards, viz. above 5 feet 3 inches in length, and not exceeding 8 feet, and under 8 inches square.
1866 J. L. Bishop Hist. Amer. Manuf. 1608–1860 I. 105 The different kinds of lumber were specified, viz., Deals of several sorts, Timber Balks of several sizes, Barrel-boards, Clapboards, Pipe-boards, or Pipe holt.
† pipe head n. Obsolete rare the flat end of a cask.
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c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 375 At the reuerence of Hercules when he was come vnto hys hous, he brake vppe this pipe-hede.
† pipe holt n. Obsolete (historical in later use) timber used in making casks.
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1609 Rates Marchandizes sig. K2v Pipe-holt, or Pipe-bords the C. cont. six score, xx.s.
1702 Act of Tonnage & Poundage, & Rates of Merchandize 20 Pipe Boards, or Pipe Holt, the hundred cont. one hundred and twenty Boards.
1798 I. Sequiera New Merchant's Guide 199 Any sort of Wood, Plank, or Timber..Pipe Boards or Pipe Holt, White Boards for Shoemakers, [etc.].
1866 J. L. Bishop Hist. Amer. Manuf. 1608–1860 I. 105 The different kinds of lumber were specified, viz.,..Barrel-boards, Clapboards, Pipe-boards, or Pipe holt.
† pipe-hoop n. Obsolete a hoop used to hold together the staves of a cask.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > hoops for making casks
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1341–2 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 117 In iiij handledhopes et ij hopes pro j payle, vij barelhopes, ij piphopes cum opere suo.
1510 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 394 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 Three pipe hopis for a pennye.
† pipe merry adj. Obsolete merry from drinking wine; drunk.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk
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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 141 Wyne deliuereth the herte from all care..when a bodye is pipe merye.
pipe stave n. now historical each of the staves which are hooped together to make a cask.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > strip of wood > for making casks or vessels
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c1580 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 177 The cuppillis sall be of the thiknes that euerye thre cuppillis sall tak the lenth of a burdeous [printed windeous] pipe staf.
1666 London Gaz. No. 45/1 Four Vessels laden with Pipe~staves from Hamburgh, for the use of the Navy.
1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) VII. 438 Ireland, which afforded an advantageous mart for corn, flax, and pipe-staves, has been shut against them [sc. colonists] by an act of parliament.
1842 N. Hawthorne Village Uncle 106 It was a small collection of dwellings that seemed to have..come ashore among the pipe staves and other lumber, which had been washed from the deck of an eastern schooner.
1999 William & Mary Q. 56 140 Farmers in such areas turned to ‘cropping’ the trees, first for pipe staves and maple syrup, later by burning them to make potash and charcoal.
† pipe wine n. Obsolete wine drawn directly from a cask.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > wine drawn from the wood
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1552 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 164 For lossing and sellaring of ane twn wyne in punscheounis xij d., and of ilk twn pype wyne xvj d.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. ii. 81 Host Ile to my honest knight sir Iohn Falstaffe, And drinke Canary with him. Ford. I may chance to make him drinke in pipe wine, First come gentlemen.
1754 G. G. Beekman in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 228 You say I forgot to Credit You for the Pipe wine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pipen.3

Brit. /pʌɪp/, U.S. /paɪp/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pipe v.4
Etymology: < pipe v.4 Compare earlier peep n.2
slang (originally cant).
A look, a glance. †on the pipe: on the lookout (obsolete).
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1865 Leaves from Diary Celebrated Burglar 102/2 I observed several ‘fly-cops’ on the ‘pipe’ for ‘cross coves’.
1912 L. J. Vance Destroying Angel vi. 80 Wait till you get a pipe at her off the stage.
1980 J. McVicar in Sunday Times 31 Aug. (Mag.) 45/2 Have a pipe at her... I just might give her a pull.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pipev.1

Brit. /pʌɪp/, U.S. /paɪp/
Forms: Old English pipian, Middle English–1600s pype, Middle English– pipe, 1600s paipe; Scottish pre-1700 pyip, pre-1700 pype, pre-1700 1700s– pipe.
Origin: Probably of multiple origins. A borrowing from Latin. Probably also partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin pīpāre; French piper.
Etymology: Originally < classical Latin pīpāre to peep, cheep, chirp, in post-classical Latin also to blow a pipe (1287 in a British source: see below); compare Middle Dutch pīpen (Dutch pijpen ), Middle Low German pīpen , Old High German pfīfōn , phīfōn (Middle High German pfīfen , phīfen , German pfeifen ), Norwegian pipe , Old Swedish pipa (Swedish pipa ), Danish pibe . In branch II. probably reinforced by Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French piper to let out a little cry, to squeak (c1180 in Old French (with reference to a mouse); also in Middle French as pipier (14th cent.)) < an unattested post-classical Latin form *pippare < classical Latin pīpāre to peep, cheep, chirp (see note); compare Spanish pipear to utter a small sound (1630), Italian pipare , glossed by Florio (1598) as ‘to cackle or clock as a hen, to pip, to pule as a hawke’ (now obsolete in this sense), pipiare to cheep (1564; now rare; also pipilare (1624; now literary)); with branch I. compare also Anglo-Norman piper (a1382 or earlier in sense ‘to play on the pipe’), Middle French (Picardy) piper to play on the pipe (c1383 in apparently isolated use), Middle French piper (of a pipe) to sound (c1307 in apparently isolated use). Compare also Lithuanian pypti , Czech pípati in the same sense; also Hellenistic Greek πῖπος , post-classical Latin pipio (5th cent.) a young chirping bird, German Piepvogel (18th or 19th cent. or earlier; compare also Piephahn , Pieplerche , Piepmatz , Piepmaus ); all of imitative origin. In English, the sense of uttering a small cry is now more usually expressed by peep v.2; compare also pip v.2Classical Latin pīpāre , beside pīpiāre , pīpīre (all apparently in same sense), was evidently imitative, mimicking the voice of chickens and little birds; similar forms could arise independently in any language. Thus, beside the forms above, the following forms are also found: early modern Dutch piepen (1573; Dutch piepen ), German regional (Low German) piepen , German piepen (16th cent.); also French pépier to cheep, chirp, squeak (1572 in Middle French), Italian †pipire , glossed by Florio (1598) as ‘to peepe as a chickin’. With sense 9 perhaps compare pipe n.1 2, 7.
I. To play a musical instrument.
1. intransitive. To play on or blow a pipe or similar wind instrument; to play the bagpipes. Cf. pipe n.1 1.to pipe in an ivy-leaf: see ivy-leaf n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play pipe
pipeOE
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > whistle
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OE Lapidary 14 An stan..þæs ansine is swilce an man pipige mid nigon pipan & an man hearpige.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 232 (MED) Ac for I can noither tabre ne trompe..ne fythelen at festes, ne harpen..ne gentlych pype.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 7 A Miller was ther dwellyng many a day... Pipen he koude and fisshe and nettes beete.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vi. vii Whanne I pyped and played of my muse or bag pype ye dayned, ne wold not daunce.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke vii. f. lxxxvv We have pyped vnto you, and ye have nott daunsed.
1554 J. Knox Godly Let. sig. A viijv Nowe they haue bene at the skoole of Placebo, and ther they haue lerned..to daunse as the deuill lyst to pype.
1586 in D. Neal Hist. Purit. (1732) I. 480 The service of God is grievously abused by piping with organs.
1607 T. Dekker Knights Conjuring ix. sig. K2v You shall see swaynes defly piping, and virgins chastly dancing.
1637 J. Milton Comus 28 The soothest shepheard that ere pipe't on plains.
1685 A. Behn Misc. 298 Long may he sing in every Field and Grove, And teach the Swains to Pipe, the Maids to Love.
1710 A. Philips Pastorals iv. 25 Albeit some deal I pipe.
1765 T. Gray Shakespeare in Corr. Gray & W. Mason (1853) 340 15 When thou hear'st the organ piping shrill.
1792 C. Smith Desmond I. xi. 188 All flesh is running out piping, fiddling, and dancing to the vintage.
1842 R. Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics x And folks who put me in a passion May find me pipe after another fashion.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona ii. 21 I'm Hieland born, and when the clan pipes, who but me has to dance?
1935 G. Greene in Spectator 27 Sept. 462/2 The shepherd pipes to the rich woman's guests and the notes bring all his animals trampling out of their enclosure.
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird iii. 42 I learned to pipe, as a girl, back in Scotland.
1998 Independent (Nexis) 16 Aug. 1 A queasy variety of Scottish identities are unfurled: pipers pipe, fiddlers play twiddly music.
2. transitive. To play (a tune, a dance, etc.) on a pipe or on the bagpipes. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] > play bagpipe
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 207 (MED) Pictagoras hiȝte pipers to pipe a song i-made by þe enditynge of spondeus.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 3343 (MED) Mercurie..cam where Argus he behield..And gan to pipe in his manere Thing which was slepi forto hiere.
a1475 Friar & Boy (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 58 (MED) Fadyr..yn good fay, Y dyd ryȝt noȝt to hym to day, But pyped hym a spryng.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) iii. 15 Wyth goodly pypes in their mouthes i-tuned..they pyped a daunce, I-clipped Amour de la hault plesaunce.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xiv. 7 Except they make a distinccion in the soundes: howe shall it be knowen what is pyped or harped?
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ix. sig. Gg3v The lustie shepheard swaynes..Did pype and sing her prayses dew. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. C/1 Ile pipe him such a Paven.
1657 J. Bramhall Castigations Mr. Hobbes 420 He hath the confidence to proclaim his own atchievements with a silver trumpet, when they do not deserve to be piped upon an oaten reed.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 141 On the recruits for the Swiss regiments piping or singing the cow-brawl, a common tune among the Alpine boors.
1789 W. Blake Introd. in Songs of Innocence Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant glee.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. iii. 191 Those witching airs still piped among the wild mountains and lonely glens of Scotland.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 22 On a curved oat the Phrygian deep pipeth a melody.
1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 11 She piped her sons the frontier march.
1918 N. Duncan Battles Royal i. ii. 38 Brew tea, and yarn, and pipe a song or two.
1968 V. Virtue in K. Ramchand & C. Gray West Indian Poetry (1972) 56 Just fail your School Certificate next June, Then you'll pipe another tune!
1998 USA Today (Nexis) 20 Nov. 8 a A bagpiper piped a tune near a placard that read ‘Fire the Liar’.
3. transitive. To bring or lead (a person or thing) into a place or condition by playing a pipe; to lead or entice with or as with the sound of a pipe. See also to pipe up 3 at Phrasal verbs.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > by music
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society > faith > worship > church music > [verb (transitive)] > praise with organ music
to pipe up1543
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] > escort with piping
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > play keyboard instrument [verb (transitive)] > play organ > celebrate by
to pipe up1543
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [verb (intransitive)] > raise voice
to tune up1701
pipe1889
1673 J. Dryden Amboyna i. 4 We must put on a seeming kindness,..pipe 'em within the danger of our Net, and then we'l draw it o're 'em.
a1699 T. Nourse Campania Fœlix (1706) xii. 172 Such Sots are easily Piped on to destroy their Estates.
1785 L. MacNally Fashionable Levities iv. iii. 68 You..have slumber'd like another Argus—were your eyes piped into a nap by this Mercury?
1842 R. Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics (ad fin.) Whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice.
1889 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 616 He pipes them homewards, and they trot along..as if they liked the music.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 25 Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan Lalors piped you overborder.
1985 L. Blue Kitchen Blues 10 Chani, a mystic and a flautist who pipes me towards vegetarian cooking.
2010 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 8 Oct. 16/4 A special thanks to Dr Harry Robertson for piping me into Ardeneden—playing the tune he has specially composed for me.
4. Nautical. transitive.
a. To summon (a crew) to a meal, duty, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe. Also intransitive and in extended use. Cf. pipe n.1 1d.The term survives in modern naval use, although it now generally refers to an instruction given to the crew over a tannoy or other address system (see quot. 1989).
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (intransitive)] > sound or signal on pipe
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > summon, dismiss, or escort with pipe
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to pipe away1833
society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > sound signal on instrument [verb (intransitive)] > sound whistle as signal
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1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 102 Whensoever the Boatswain pipes to Dinner.
1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands ix. 92 The boatswain..piped all out to their separate departments.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. ii. 406 All hands were piped to make the necessary arrangements.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. x. 122 Jemmy piped the hands up.
1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 15 The hands had just been piped to breakfast.
1972 Earl Mountbatten Jrnl. 30 Mar. (1989) 248 I..was quite glad to escape to visit the Chief Petty Officers. I was piped as though for rounds on my way to their Mess.
1989 Equinox (Camden East, Ont.) Jan.–Feb. 69/2 The captain cuts the engines and holds position, then pipes the flight-deck crew to prepare for takeoff.
b. To signal or mark the arrival of (an officer, visiting official, etc.) by blowing a long rising and falling tone on the boatswain's pipe. Frequently with aboard or on board. Also in extended use. to pipe the side: to mark ceremonially in this manner a visit to a ship by royalty, a foreign dignitary, or a high-ranking naval officer.The use of a rising and falling tone is from the practice of bringing visitors aboard on a chair slung from the yardarm, when notes were blown to instruct the men operating the ropes.
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (intransitive)] > sound or signal on pipe
pipe1707
to pipe the side1803
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > summon, dismiss, or escort with pipe
pipe1707
pipe1803
to pipe away1833
1803 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1941) III. 40 A Commodore of a Squadron to be received on board with a guard under arms and a march... The side to be piped by the Boatswain and manned by Six Sidesmen.
1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. xii. 75 A ward room officer..has two side boys, with a boatswain's mate, to pipe them over and back again.
1890 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 456/1 Shrilly, in a long-drawn rising and falling note, the ‘bo's'n's’ whistle pipes our guests over the side as the Minister..climbs the ladder and appears on deck.
1918 Daily Mirror 18 Nov. 3/1 Admiral Meurer, who was ‘piped aboard’, saluted the quarterdeck.
1955 Times 1 July 6/3 The Duke was piped on board, welcomed by the master, Captain H. W. Langbein.
1994 S. Hawke Patrian Transgression Prol. 9 Kirk had also ordered the bosun's mate to be on hand, to officially pipe the envoy aboard.
II. To utter, to sing.
5.
a. intransitive. To utter a shrill, weak sound; to talk or sing weakly or shrilly; to cheep, squeak, chirp or croak. Cf. peep v.2 1a, pip v.2Now only used of animals such as mice, insects, and frogs, and occasionally of people. When referring to sounds made by birds, superseded by sense 7a.With quots. 1877, 1962, cf. piping n.1 1c.
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > whistle or chirp
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > squeak
pipec1275
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peep1534
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > make shrill sound
yellOE
pipec1275
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > shrilly or in a weak voice
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shrillc1440
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chirp1604
pipe1675
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cheep1813
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 503 Ne miȝtu leng a word iqueþe Ac pipest al so doþ a mose.
a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 271 (MED) Frogge pypyth [glossing Fr. Reyne gaille].
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 747 (MED) Mony bryddez unblyþe vpon bare twyges..pitosly þer piped for pyne of þe colde.
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 50 Pipio, to pipe as a faucon.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 401 Pypyn, or ȝyppe, as henn byrdys, pipio, pipulo.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 21 Ye shal catche myes by grete heepis, herke how they pype [Du. pipen].
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 122 (MED) Who is that pypys so poore?
1675 F. Fane Love in Dark ii. ii. 19 I hate to see our Mistresses at Grates Look like coop'd Chickens piping for their Meat.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) iv. cxii. 47/2 An affected Throng Which chirp'd, pip'd, crackled, squeak'd, and buzz'd about.
1763 H. S. J. Giral del Pino Dict. Eng. & Spanish II. (at cited word) To pipe, or to be piping, as sickly people do, gemír.
1803 J. Leyden Scenes of Infancy I. 141 Pittering grasshoppers pipe giddily along the glowing hill.
?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. I. p. iv Grasshoppers chirp, and pipe..amongst the herbs.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xix. 164 The amorous frog piped from among the rushes.
1877 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 107/2 As soon as the second queen began piping, the swarm..left the hive.
1901 Scotsman 15 Mar. 7/4 The possessor of the thinnest treble in the Irish quarter..piped tremulously.
1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman xiv. 170 Suddenly, as at some signal, the frogs begin to pipe from the meadow pool.
1962 Science 19 Oct. 446/3 The caged queen in the hive usually piped within 5 seconds after the artificial piping ceased.
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 9 Mar. 4 Around me the whistling tree frogs piped, and above me the clouds shimmered in the moonlight.
b. transitive. To utter (a sound) in a weak or peeping voice; to utter as a squeak. In later use only with direct speech as object.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > in thin or weak voice
pipec1450
windpipe1895
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > impart specific tone or quality [verb (transitive)] > utter in thin or weak voice
pipec1450
windpipe1895
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 785 Every speche or noyse or soun, Thurgh hys multiplicacioun, Thogh hyt were piped of a mous, Mot nede come to Fames Hous.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 117v One pipes out his woordes so small through defaulte of his wynde pype, that ye woulde thinke he whisteled.
1852 Gettysburg (Pa.) Republican Compiler 31 May 1/1 ‘Yes, mother!’ piped a small and terrified voice.
1862 Harper's Mag. Sept. 505/1 ‘Couldn't you give a poor pusson a ride?’ piped a weak little voice from the opposite bed.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xiv. 186 The tiny voices piped in obedient response ‘Amen!’
a1894 R. L. Stevenson Amateur Emigrant (1895) 47 One piped, in feeble tones, ‘O why left I my hame?’
1921 Four Years in Underbrush xviii. 240 ‘This is the only house in this block that hasn't been broke in,’ she piped, her voice thinned by weakness and much suffering.
1941 A. A. Michie & W. Graebner Lights of Freedom iii. 45 A cockney member of the ground crew piped: ‘Sir, I think the “Winko” [wing commander] is after the Hun.’
1999 M. Van Walleghen Last Neanderthal 15 ‘Smooth,’ a strangled little voice pipes back.
6.
a. transitive. To utter or sing (words, a song, etc.) in a loud, high-pitched, musical, or clear voice. Also in extended use.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > in shrill voice
pipe1567
shrill1595
treble?1624
screech1639
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > impart specific tone or quality [verb (transitive)] > utter in shrill voice
pipe1567
shrill1595
screech1639
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > sing shrilly or harshly
pipe1567
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the world > animals > birds > [verb (transitive)] > to make sound
record?a1534
pipec1751
flute1842
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. 406 Many hundreth of angeles harpeden & songen, Culpat caro, purgat caro; regnat deus dei caro, Thanne piped [c1400 C text pipede] pees of poysye a note.
1567 Gude & Godlie Ballatis (1897) 208 Sa sall they pipe a merie fit.
1612 in Pepys Ballads (1929) i. 49 Ripe Cherrie, ripe, ripe, Hotte Pippin-pies, they pipe: Hay 'ny Boules or Trayes to mende?
1634 W. Lathum Phyala Lachrymarum 25 But constant Red-brest pipes his chearefull notes When frost, and storms dams th'others glozing throats.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 97 The same old Song..which they have pip'd to each other these many Years.
c1751 T. Gray Elegy in Poems (1966) 41 Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song.
1783 J. Price Let. to Sir P. J. Clerke 129 The same melodious voice, that formerly piped the compositions of Sternhold and Hopkins.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine i The boys piped out an hurrah.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Queen Guinevere in Poems (new ed.) II. 206 Sometimes the linnet piped his song.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 210 The note piped by the kettle denoted it to be nearly empty.
1958 T. H. White Once & Future King i. 168 The curlew, who had been piping their mournful plaints since long before the light, flew now from weed-bank.
1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Mar. i. 60/1 Diane Kesling ([in the parts of] Wardrobe Mistress, Schoolboy and Page), piped her notes ably but appeared lost much of the time.
b. intransitive. To talk or sing loudly or musically. Also with out, etc., and transitive with it.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [verb (intransitive)] > utter in shrill voice
creakc1440
pipe1648
1648 W. Lilly Astrol. Predict. 44 A lye if the drowsie Malignant Prophets pipe otherwise.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 268 My mother was the best scold in all Ballyshannon, and if she did not pipe it away two or three hours every day, she [etc.].
1792 C. Smith Desmond III. 177 He goes piping about, and talks of unequal representation, and the weight of taxes.
1866 C. Rossetti Prince's Progress 3 Voices piped on the gale.
1912 J. Conrad 'Twixt Land & Sea 60 She piped out at once in her brazen, ruffianly manner.
1947 C. Mackenzie Whisky Galore i. 1 Captain Mackenzie piped in that high-pitched voice of his.
1992 Independent (Nexis) 11 Feb. 14 Fragile voices which pipe reedily in their best registers.
7.
a. intransitive. Of a bird: to whistle or sing. Also of a mammal: to give a high-pitched call.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > make shrill sound
shrikec1200
pipe?a1500
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queek1707
gallow1825
wheetle1825
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Paddock & Mouse l. 2901 in Poems (1981) 107 He flew..Fane off that fang, pyipand with mony pew.
a1591 H. Smith in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxxxvi. 1 Like a bird that is taught to pipe.
1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra ii. 173 Nature's Minstrels Piping and Chirping, as they sit.
1745 T. Warton Inscript. Hermitage ii Within my limits lone and still The blackbird pipes in artless trill.
1768 G. White Let. 18 Apr. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 47 In breeding-time snipes play over the moors, piping and humming.
a1771 T. Gray Birds in Wks. (1814) II. 596 There pipes the woodlark.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. vi. 51 The thrush piped from the hawthorn.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 22 The frightened marmots piped incessantly from the rocks.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 61 O throstle softly piping High on the topmost bough.
1917 S. Sassoon Old Huntsman 73 If some bird should pipe, or breezes stir the glade.
1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1990) i. xxx. 146 He found her dreaming as usual, while wagtails and silvereyes piped from the windowsill to acknowledge her talent.
b. intransitive. Of the wind: to whistle; to howl. Also in extended use. Cf. to pipe up 2 at Phrasal verbs.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 88 The windes, pyping to vs in vaine, As in reuenge, haue suckt vp, from the Sea, Contagious fogges. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 42 While rocking Winds are Piping loud.
1778 J. Bampfylde Sixteen Sonnets vi When low'rs the sky, and winds are piping loud!
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxiii. 110 The favouring breeze, when loud It pipes upon the galley's shroud.
1825 H. W. Longfellow Woods in Winter in U.S. Lit. Gaz. 1 Feb. 317/1 Gathered winds..Amid the vocal reeds pipe loud.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xv. 136 We heard the bullets piping all around them.
1929 A. T. Quiller-Couch Poems 40 The salt wind piping.
1999 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 23 May 1 g The sound of the wind piping across the plateau will one day be punctuated with the click of hundreds of cameras.
†c. intransitive. Of a person: to whistle. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > whistle
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wheeple1818
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 162 His bigge manly voice, Turning againe toward childish trebble pipes, And whistles in his sound. View more context for this quotation
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. ix. 118 She threw up her mouth, put her lips near the bars, and piped..to the attentive listeners.
8. colloquial.
a. intransitive. To weep, cry. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)]
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weepc900
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beweepc1374
to put one's finger in one's eye1447
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cryc1532
lerma1533
tricklec1540
to water one's plants1542
to show tears1553
shower1597
issuea1616
lachrymate1623
sheda1632
pipe1671
to take a pipe1671
to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789
twine1805
to let fall1816
whinnya1825
blub1866
slobber1875
blart1896
skrike1904
water-cart1914
1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. vii. 99 Hunger awakening me, I piped so shrilly, (and so unexpectedly lowd from a Child so young,) that I soon penetrated the ears of a great many..persons.
1766 G. S. Carey Cottagers in Inoculator i. iii. 53 What piping again, what the Devil ails thee now?
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 310 She has been piping all the way down to Bath.
a1814 C. Dibdin Songs (1842) 187/2 'Tis nonsense, for trifles, I own, to be piping.
1824 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 283 The organ..is the finest thing I ever heard. The three or four first chords made me pipe.
1901 J. S. Farmer Slang Pipe..(1) to talk; and (2) to cry; also to pipe up, to take a pipe, to tune one's pipes, and to pipe one's eye.
1975 H. Duncan Treehouse viii. 260 ‘We're here—’ Lily said. Tears started to roll. ‘Stop piping at the eyes,’ Chester ordered.
b. transitive. colloquial (originally Nautical). to pipe one's eye (also eyes): to weep, cry. Cf. to put one's finger in one's eye at eye n.1 Phrases 2q(b).
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)]
greetc725
weepc900
tearc950
plore1373
beweepc1374
to put one's finger in one's eye1447
waterc1450
lachryme1490
cryc1532
lerma1533
tricklec1540
to water one's plants1542
to show tears1553
shower1597
issuea1616
lachrymate1623
sheda1632
pipe1671
to take a pipe1671
to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789
twine1805
to let fall1816
whinnya1825
blub1866
slobber1875
blart1896
skrike1904
water-cart1914
?1789 C. Dibdin Poor Jack iii. 3 What argufies sniv'ling and piping your eye?
1814 Sailor's Return ii. i, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 337 Lucy and he must have piped their eyes enough by this time.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxxii. 382 He was very frail, and tearful..his own peculiar mission was to pipe his eye.
1897 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes xxxii ‘One don't pipe one's eye when one comes into a fortun'’, said the wheelwright.
1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman vii. 73 So long as you rage and are unseemly your kinsfolk will never pipe their eye.
1982 G. M. Fraser Flashman & Redskins 32 She'd been besotted with me, the fond old strumpet, piping her eye when I left her.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 227/2 Theer she war, pipin' 'er eyes i' the corner.
†9. intransitive. Originally and chiefly Boxing slang. To breathe hard, to pant from exertion; to wheeze. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > become short of breath > pant
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1814 Sporting Mag. 44 72 Painter at length fell from weakness, and both were at this time piping.
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 19 Hudson came piping to the scratch.

Phrasal verbs

With adverbs in specialized senses. to pipe away
Nautical.
transitive. To dismiss or send away (a boat or crew) by sounding the boatswain's pipe; to ceremoniously consign to burial.
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > summon, dismiss, or escort with pipe
pipe1707
pipe1803
to pipe away1833
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xxiii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 152/2 Pipe away the yawlers, boatswain's mate.
1886 Times 23 Dec. 7/1 The alarm was given, a life buoy thrown out, and at the same time the boat's crew was piped away.
1949 Times 3 Nov. 3/4 In the Athabaskan a whaler's crew which had been piped away for a particular duty did not respond.
2003 Halifax (Nova Scotia) Daily News (Nexis) 2 Nov. 24 At her funeral..six of the members formed an honour guard and in true naval tradition, piped her away with a bo'sun's call.
 to pipe down
1. transitive. Nautical. To dismiss (a crew) by sounding the boatswain's pipe; frequently in imperative. to pipe down the hammocks: to give the signal for the crew to retire for the night. Cf. pipe down n.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > sound signal on instrument [verb (transitive)] > sound whistle as signal > dismiss by whistle
to pipe down1798
1798 L. Gillespie Advice to Commanders & Officers 22 At four o'clock, P.M. the hammocks should regularly be piped down.
1803 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1941) III. 34 No person is to go below from his station..before the people are piped down.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xi. 145 The hammocks were piped down..and the ship was once more quiet.
1850 H. Melville White-jacket xxxiii. 165 ‘Pipe down!’ cried the Captain, and the crew slowly dispersed.
1902 Our Naval Apprentice (U.S.) Aug. 2 When hammocks are piped down the boys sling their hammocks, arrange their bed-clothes and prepare their sleeping places.
1994 P. O'Brian Commodore (1996) ix. 247 When you consider what the lower deck is like..the cloud of witnesses when hammocks are piped down.
2. intransitive. colloquial. To stop talking, be quiet, be less noisy or insistent. Frequently imperative. Also occasionally transitive: to cause (a person) to be silent.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > be silent [verb]
to pipe down1876
shurrup1893
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking
to make up one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
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dumba1300
leavea1375
to put a sock in ita1529
hush1548
silence1551
stay1551
stow1567
stop1579
to save one's breath (also wind)1605
tace1697
stubble it!1699
shut your trap!1796
to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808
stubble your whids!1830
to shut up1840
to dry up1853
pawl1867
subside1872
to pipe down1876
to shut (one's) head, face1876
shurrup1893
to shut off1896
clam1916
dry1934
shtum1958
to oyster up1973
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking
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stilla1225
to keep ina1420
stifle1496
to knit up1530
to muzzle (up) the mouth1531
choke1533
muzzle?1542
to tie a person's tongue1544
tongue-tiea1555
silence1592
untongue1598
to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605
to bite in1608
gaga1616
to swear downa1616
to laugh down1616
stifle1621
to cry down1623
unworda1627
clamour1646
splint1648
to take down1656
snap1677
stick1708
shut1809
to shut up1814
to cough down1823
to scrape down1855
to howl down1872
extinguish1878
hold1901
shout1924
to pipe down1926
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > deprive of voice [verb (transitive)] > put to silence
to put silence toc1384
to stop (one's own or another's) mouthc1384
to put (a person or thing) to silencea1464
mumc1475
stillc1540
to button up (a person's) lip (also mouth)1601
obacerate1656
bouche1721
to shut up1814
to pipe down1926
to button (a person's) lip (also mouth)1968
1876 G. Campbell Log Lett. from Challenger iii. 119 As I cannot tell you..anything about New Zealand I shall ‘pipe down’.
1896 J. D. J. Kelley Ship's Company (1897) 110 Pipe down; don't mention that rep-tile.
1900 Dial. Notes 2 49 Pipe down, to stop talking.
1926 M. Anderson & L. Stallings What Price Glory? iii, in 3 Amer. Plays 76 He tried to pipe me down.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. v. 105 Groans of protest rose from the other cells where various tramps and pick-pockets were trying to get some sleep: ‘Aw, pipe down!’
1974 Times 19 Jan. 12/1 The more immoderate members of his party..may pipe down.
1992 Daily Mirror 3 Oct. 8/4 A noisy karaoke knees-up by pensioners drove neighbours wild. Desperate for quiet they called police who told the old-timers to pipe down.
 to pipe in
transitive to welcome or herald the arrival of (a ceremonial dish, etc.) with the accompaniment of bagpipes.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] > play bagpipe > bring in with bagpiping
to pipe in1908
1908 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. 2/2 A Scotch bagpipe orchestra of two alternated with the regular orchestra. When the haggis..was brought in it was piped in.
1939 F. Drake-Carnell It's Old Sc. Custom ii. facing p. 54 (caption) St. Andrew's Night. Piping in the haggis.
1968 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Dec. 2/3 The plum pudding, ablaze, was piped in and paraded around the dining room by the chef before being served.
2003 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 19 Feb. 17 In time-honoured tradition the haggis was piped in and Robbie Burns' address to the haggis recited.
 to pipe up
1. Of a musician.
a. intransitive. To begin to play music; to strike up.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > strike up
to pipe upc1440
to strike up1549
to sound off1909
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 4105 (MED) They pype vpe at pryme tyme.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 168 Malone, much chagrined at hearing him pipe up in most superior style, determined to earn distinction, too, if possible.
1901 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 422/2 If a shepherd is handy, let him pipe up a little, so as to put Guy into good spirits.
1991 Financial Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. i. 15 During the overture, the orchestra obligingly piped up with his favourite tune.
b. transitive. To begin to play (a piece of music, a musical instrument).
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a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) 16 Pipe vp mu[syk].
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. v. sig. Cii In the meane time felowes, pype upp your fiddles.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses xvii. 172 Euery towne, Citie, and Countrey, is full of these ministrelles to pype vp a dance to the Deuill.
1865 E. C. Gaskell Cousin Phillis iii. 72 It was cousin Holman, all by herself in the house-place, piping up a hymn.
1943 Times 4 Dec. 5/4 Why should they [sc. people who whistle] on hearing someone else whistling, so often pipe up a rival tune?
2002 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 27 Mar. (Living section) 1 The not-always-so-melodious calliopes piping up a tune from a paddlewheeler on the Mississippi.
2. intransitive. Of the wind: to rise, increase.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly > increase
rise?1520
fresh1599
to come up1647
freshen1669
ascend1715
to get up1834
to blow up1840
stiffen1844
to breeze up1867
to pipe up1901
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. viii. 48 At our desyre, The sessonabil ayr pipis vp fair and schyre.
1857 M. Wickham Sea-spray i. 14 The wind is piping up spitefully in the southeast, and the clouds are heaving up black and heavy.
1901 Daily Chron. 14 May 8/7 The wind had piped up to half a gale overnight.
1987 J. Barth Tidewater Tales (1988) 138 That wind is piping up.
1992 Yachts & Yachting 28 Aug. 96/2 The wind had now piped up to 25 knots.
†3. transitive. To exalt or worship with organ music; to raise the spirits of, to encourage. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > church music > [verb (transitive)] > praise with organ music
to pipe up1543
pipe1673
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > play keyboard instrument [verb (transitive)] > play organ > celebrate by
to pipe up1543
pipe1673
1543 G. Joye George Ioye confuteth Winchesters Articles f. xxiij Thei pype him [sc. God] vp with orgaynes.
1681 W. Dugdale Short View Late Troubles xxii. 238 At the first beginning of thie woful Rebellion, the rabble and baser sort of people in Scotland, were piped up by the zealous Kirkmen.
4. Of the human voice.
a. intransitive. To begin singing or speaking; to speak up, make an interjection.
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1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. iii. 32 Come, pipe up, my boy..The song, the song!
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. iii. 23 Once..he piped up to a different air, a kind of country love-song.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xvi. 197 As the guard laid a hand upon me, she piped up with the tranquilest confidence.
1928 D. H. Lawrence in Daily Express 29 Nov. 10/4 Women to-day, wherever they are, show up; and they pipe up.
1975 E. Dunlop Robinsheugh vi. 42 Elizabeth found no words to reply, but the little girl on the other side of the striped woollen knee piped up on her behalf.
1992 More 28 Oct. 63/2 If I disagree with someone at work, I'm unlikely to pipe up.
b. transitive. With direct speech as object: to interject, speak up, volunteer (a comment).
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1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxiii. 466 Mrs. Smallweed instantly begins to shake her head, and pipe up, ‘Seventy-six pound seven and sevenpence!’
1918 Stars & Stripes 5 Apr. 1/6 ‘Aw, I don't know that they've done so bad,’ piped up another, for the sake of the argument.
1958 R. E. Lighton Out of Strong 15 ‘Ouma Cronje,’ Ansie piped up, ‘why don't you make it go any more? You could make jellies and ice-cream in it.’
1989 T. Kidder Among Schoolchildren iii. ii. 93 ‘Maripose caught a firefly in her hand.’ ‘And squished it,’ piped up Robert.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† pipev.2

Forms: late Middle English pype, 1500s 1700s pipe.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pipe n.2
Etymology: < pipe n.2 Compare post-classical Latin pipare to pack in a pipe (1440, 1449 in British sources).
Obsolete.
transitive. To put (provisions, merchandise, etc.) in a pipe (pipe n.2) or cask.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles
sackc1405
pokea1425
pipe1465
barrel1466
cask1562
bag1570
vessel1577
basket1582
crock1594
cade1599
maund1604
impoke1611
incask1611
inflask1611
insatchel1611
desk1615
pot1626
cooper1746
kit1769
vat1784
pannier1804
vial1805
flask1855
tub1889
ampoule1946
1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 185 (MED) Reschard Felaw hathe..serten befe, serten bere, and serten flower pyped.
1513 Act 5 Hen. VIII c. 16 Thoffice of packyng of wolleyn clothes..and of oder merchaundises to be pakked tonned piped barellid or otherwise enclosid.
1766 J. Entick New Hist. London I. 410 Merchandize.., to be packed, tunned, piped, barrelled.
1799 D. Steel Tables Brit. Custom & Excise Duties 109 For all Goods and Merchandise, to be packed, casked, piped, barrelled, or any ways vesselled, in order to be transported to parts beyond the seas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

pipev.3

Brit. /pʌɪp/, U.S. /paɪp/
Forms: 1500s pyep, 1600s– pip, 1600s– pipe.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pipe n.1
Etymology: < pipe n.1
I. To use a pipe or similar to convey fluid, gas, etc.
†1. transitive. To drink. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)]
drinkc1000
bite?c1225
touchc1384
supc1400
neck?1518
exhaust1555
lug1577
pipe?1578
to suck at1584
slup1598
reswill1614
imbibe1621
tug1698
absorb1821
tipple1824
inhaust1848
down1869
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 61 In lyttl more then a three dayz space .72. tunn of Ale & Beer waz pyept vp quite.
†2. intransitive. To flow or be conveyed as through a pipe. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1656 R. Short Περι Ψυχροποσιας Pref. sig. Aijv We see so many kickshaws in all sciences..and new Paradoxes in Physick, piping out of the Novelists Braines.
3. transitive. To provide with pipes for water, gas, or drainage; spec. to provide (a building) with a permanent connection to a public water or gas supply. Usually in passive.
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society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [verb (transitive)] > supply with channels or pipes
pipe1805
flume1855
bypass1886
stand-pipe1895
1805 Communications to Board of Agric. IV. 267 To 869 roods of under draining, piped with limestone, some 5 and 6 feet deep..at 4s. per rood.
1860 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 28/1 The tank system and liquid manuring was to be adopted, the land having been piped..so that..the liquid could be distributed as required.
1873 Rep. Commissioners Great Fire Boston 480 There was a territory laid out to be piped with new pipes, and they have been put in with Lowry hydrants.
1884 Boston Jrnl. Jan. A special town meeting..to hear the report of the committee with reference to piping the town. The committee will recommend that the town take its water of Lynn.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Oct. 8/1 House piped for hot water heating.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 146/3 Screwed to an upright pipe (or even to a hose connection if the pool is not piped) just at the water level, this specially devised brass nozzle [etc.].
1994 Harper's Mag. Mar. 25/1 Newer landfills are double-lined, piped, vented, and leachate-tested and eventually capped.
†4. transitive. U.S. Mining. To wash away, out (dirt, waste material, etc.) by means of a jet of water from a pipe. Cf. piping n.2 3. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > other (coal-)mining procedures
underbeit1670
buck1683
bank1705
bunding1747
urge1758
slappet1811
tamp1819
jowl1825
stack1832
sprag1841
hurry1847
bottom1851
salt1852
pipe1861
mill1868
tram1883
stope1886
sump1910
crow-pick1920
stockpile1921
spec1981
1861 J. S. Hittell Mining Pacific States N. Amer. 83 To facilitate washing, the bottom is drifted out, leaving pillars standing, which are piped away, and then down comes the mass above.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds x. 149 Worked-out mines,..[with] all the soil ‘piped’ away in search of the ‘pay dirt’.
1888 Overland Monthly Aug. 147/2 Trees turned to lignite have often been piped out of the banks in hydraulic mines in California.
5.
a. transitive. To convey (water, gas, oil, etc.) through or by means of pipes. Also in extended use.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > convey by a channel or medium > through pipes
pipe1867
pipeline1886
the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transmit by means of reflection
retort1649
pipe1971
1867 Times 12 Jan. 6/5 Is it safe to have the gas piped away or to have it spread over and burnt in the mine?
1895 Cent. Mag. Sept. 677/1 A kitchen into which water was piped from a spring higher up on the mountain.
1901 Daily Chron. 31 May 7/1 Fuel oil from the wells in Beaumont can be piped to Port Arthur.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 48/1 The water is piped to the roof, where yards and yards of pipe make undulating lines beneath a sheet of heavy plate glass.
1971 P. Tooley High Polymers ii. 60 Another interesting property [of polymethyl methacrylate] is its ability to ‘pipe’ light from one place to another as a result of a high degree of internal reflection.
1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Dec. 84/1 To meet demands of a population expected to double by 2030, the city proposes to pipe in water from as far away as 300 miles.
b. transitive. To transmit (music or speech, a radio or television programme, etc.) by wire or cable. Usually in passive.
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society > communication > broadcasting > [verb (transitive)] > systems or methods
pipe1931
rediffuse1940
simulcast1948
network1952
1931 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 12 June 4/4 Their [sc. an orchestra's] selections were picked up by the microphone and ‘piped’ into the audition room.
1956 Time 9 Jan. 20/2 It was his wintertime pre-breakfast habit to cut figure eights on the ice of Webster Lake..to the music of Mozart and Chopin, piped through an amplifying system he had rigged up.
1977 Sunday Times 6 Mar. 8/6 Powell's daily conference is piped into a dozen White House offices.
1984 D. Lodge Small World ii. ii. 142 He is watching..a pornographic movie..piped to his room on one of the hotel's video channels.
II. To smoke a pipe.
6. intransitive. To smoke a pipe. In later (chiefly colloquial) use: spec. to smoke a pipe of crack cocaine. Also †transitive in early use. Cf. piping n.2 1.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > smoke [verb (intransitive)] > smoke a pipe
pipe1663
1663 in J. H. Pleasants Arch. Maryland (1936) LIII. 390 Hee asked mee if I woold not pip it and so with his desir I put in and lighted my pipe.
1749 B. Martin Lingua Britannica Reformata (at cited word) To pipe, to smoke tobacco.
1846 T. L. McKenney Mem. I. iii. 71 These hardy adventurous fellows never rose from their paddles, nor stopped except to ‘pipe’.
1863 W. B. Cheadle Jrnl. 12 Dec. in Jrnl. Trip across Canada (1931) 270 Dr. Benson..assured us we were going wrong. We therefore lunched & piped.
1988 Observer 24 July Every night I spend at least £60 on rock, sometimes more than that. When you pipe you can't sleep.
1993 R. Shell iCED 5 These days (and nights) all I want to do is pipe.
III. To use, create, or form a pipe shape.
7.
†a. transitive. Horticulture. To propagate (a pink or carnation) by taking a cutting at a joint of the stem. Cf. piping n.2 7. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > take cuttings from
slip1530
slip1563
pipe?1755
?1755 J. Hill Gardener's Pocket-bk. 30 Double Pinks are increased by piping the Slips in June or July, or by layers.
1792 J. Maddock Florist's Directory 215 The easiest and most approved method of propagating Pinks is by piping them exactly in the same manner as described for Carnations.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 78 Pinks are more generally piped, Carnations layered.
1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 194/1 Carnations..when all the shoots that are long enough are layered, those which are too short may be piped like pinks.
b. intransitive. Of certain vegetables: to develop a flowering shoot. Also of the leaves of a plant: †to roll up (obsolete). Cf. piped adj.1 1b. Now English regional (rare).
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the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > have stem or stalk [verb (intransitive)] > develop stem
pipe1770
culm1860
1770 L. Carter Diary 5 July (1965) I. 432 What with the stiffness of the soil and the weeds the Corn pipes up in its blades in the middle of the day.
1788 G. Morgan Let. 31 July in G. Washington Papers (1997) Confederation Ser. VI. 411 Rolling of Wheat just before the first Frosts in Autumn, & after the last in the Spring, or before the Wheat begins to pipe or spindle, has good Effect.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 78 It [sc. celery] has a greater tendency to ‘pipe’, or run up to seed.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 518/2 [Berkshire.] Pipe..Of onions: to run to seed-stalks but not to seed.
c. transitive. Of a tree: to grow (branches) from a main stem or trunk; to sprout.Apparently an isolated use.
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1927 W. Deeping Kitty xviii. 226 Between the garden and the boathouse a magnificent plane-tree rose, piping from its trunk a great spray of greyish branches.
8.
a. transitive. To decorate (clothing, soft furnishings) with a thin cord covered in fabric. Usually in passive. Also in extended use. Cf. piping n.2 8.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > other
fur13..
buttonc1380
lashc1440
pointa1470
set1530
tuft1535
vent1547
ruff1548
spangle1548
string1548
superbody1552
to pull out1553
quilt1555
flute1578
seam1590
seed1604
overtrim1622
ruffle1625
tag1627
furbelow1701
tuck1709
flounce1711
pipe1841
skirt1848
ruche1855
pouch1897
panel1901
stag1902
create1908
pin-fit1926
ease1932
pre-board1940
post-board1963
1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley lxviii, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 387/1 Her blue satin piped with scarlet.
1884 Girl's Own Paper 29 Nov. 138/2 The edges of the newest bodices are now piped, as they were some time ago.
1906 Myra's Jrnl. Apr. 10/3 If satin is used the seams should be piped instead of being lapped.
1939 S. O'Casey I Knock at Door in Autobiograph. (1980) I. 99 His long black beard that was piped here and there with silver.
1952 S. J. Perelman in Redbook Feb. 97/1 Clad in Dubonnet-colored slacks and playtime jackets of woven jute piped in sueded [sic].
1994 N. Holder Dead in Water i. 26 She had on a pair of navy slacks and a white sailor middy blouse piped in blue trim.
b. transitive. Cookery. To force (icing, cream, mashed potato, etc.) through a bag fitted with a nozzle in order to form decorative lines or patterns on a cake or other dish; to ornament (a cake, etc.) or form (an ornamental design) in this way.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > garnish [verb (transitive)] > ice or coat with sugar
ice?1600
frost1827
sugar-coat1870
spin1883
pipe1894
candy-coat1930
1846 [implied in: C. E. Francatelli Mod. Cook 398 The cake may be decorated with piping, using for that purpose some of the icing worked somewhat thicker. (at piping n.2 9)].
1892 A. B. Marshall Larger Cookery Bk. 317 Fill them by means of a forcing bag and pipe with the Cheese custard..or whipped cream.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 4/3 The lower portion of the cake contains panels delicately piped in sugar.
1901 Daily Chron. 4 Dec. 9/2 Wanted a man..to ice and pipe Christmas cakes.
1929 E. J. Kollist French Pastry vi. 116 Cover with royal icing... When dry, pipe flowers and leaves on the basket.
1948 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 582 Pipe on chocolate butter icing and decorate with angelica.
1965 Listener 30 Sept. 511/3 Allow this to sink in a little before piping the whipped cream all over the top.
1980 Cook's Mag. Nov.–Dec. 38/3 Included in this set are sizes perfect for..piping lengths of mashed potatoes.
1992 D. Glazer Last Oasis 100 It was just like icing a wedding cake, piping on all the rosettes and twirly bits.
9. transitive. Computing and Telecommunications. To send, feed, or route (data), spec. from one process to another, so that the output from one command becomes the input for the next.
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1981 ABA Banking Jrnl. (Nexis) Jan. 76 In New York, it will pipe in data from centers hosted by other SBS customers.]
1982 Computerworld 12 Apr. 2/2 The Pentagon killed plans last week to pipe data communications through Autodin II, a packet network designed by Western Union Telegraph Co.
1991 Unix World Aug. 134/3 The resulting source file is then piped to cb, which is specified on line 12.
1998 P. E. Ceruzzi Hist. Mod. Computing ix. 284 These would clutter up the file if ‘piped’ to another process.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pipev.4

Brit. /pʌɪp/, U.S. /paɪp/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: peep v.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < peep v.1 (compare β. forms and branch II. at that entry).
slang (originally cant).
1. transitive. To understand or grasp mentally (a person, statement, etc.). Now rare.
ΚΠ
1840 H. D. Miles Dick Turpin v. 44 ‘I'm blessed if I pipe you, Jack,’ said Fielder; ‘You're queering me now.’
1907 J. London Road 75 I piped the lay on the instant.
1958 D. Goodis Down There vi. 57 Pipe that... He thinks they grow on trees... They grow in the ground. Like lettuce.
2. transitive. To watch, notice, look at; to follow or observe, esp. stealthily or with criminal intent. Also with off. Also occasionally intransitive. Now archaic or historical.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > surveillance [verb (transitive)] > observe
spyc1325
pipe1846
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 43 You may pipe the crib [= shop] by seeing a board whereon is inscribed the name of the piano faker.
1869 Galaxy 8 349 His ‘pal’..has meantime been engaged in an operation which he styles ‘piping off the cop’, by which he means that he has been watching the movements of the policeman.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 176 Pipe, to take notice of. ‘Pipe his kuss’, i.e., take notice of his mouth. A detective is said to pipe round a public-house when in search of a culprit.
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith, Journalist ii. 10 Pipe de leather collar she's wearing.
1924 E. O'Neill Welded ii. ii. 141 Remember kissing me on the corner with the whole mob pipin' us off?
1950 R. Chandler Let. 18 May in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 78 ‘Piped’ does not mean ‘found’ but saw or spotted (with the eyes).
2002 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 6 Oct. (Books section) Other shamuses may have gone about rodded up, piping the canaries with the swells, drinking hootch from the bottle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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