pipe-makingn.
/ˈpʌɪpˌmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌmeɪkɪŋ/ The action or craft of making a pipe or pipes (in various senses).
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saddleryc1449
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pin-makinga1711
pipe-making1721
keeve-work1776
kelp-making1810
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kelping1822
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1721 Compl. Coll. Remarkable Tryals III. 165 He wrought for a while at his Craft of Pipe-making, by which he got five or six Shillings a Week.
1793 T. Cogan Rhine II. 350 You might contemplate various manufactories, of wool-dyeing, dressing of leather, pipe-making, and also an extensive pottery.
1848 Sci. Amer. 12 Aug. 374/1 The simple art of pipe-making is almost entirely one of Copying.
1875 Scribner's Monthly July 397 Calcined granite is being used as a substitute for clay in earthen-ware and pipe-making.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 10/1 For pipe-making..a large cob is desirable.
1978 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 20 June 1 a/2 The L.B. Foster Co., whose pipemaking plant is over the patch of ground.
2003 Purchasing (Nexis) 16 Jan. 24 b11 All of these EAF mills make carbon steel plate used in building and construction, bridges.., agricultural implements, and pipemaking.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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