单词 | pipe stopper |
释义 | > as lemmaspipe stopper pipe stopper n. a small plug for compressing the tobacco in the bowl of a pipe. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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