Pipe clay

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• pipe-clay

  Known to the ancients under the name of paretonium; formerly indispensable to soldiers as well as th...

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• Clay

  ·vt To cover or manure with clay. II. Clay ·vt To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar. III...

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• Clay

  This word is used of sediment found in pits or in streets (Isa. 57:20; Jer. 38:60), of dust mixed wi...

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• Clay

  As the sediment of water remaining in pits or in streets, the word is used frequently in the Old Tes...

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• Pipe

  ·noun The key or sound of the voice. II. Pipe ·noun An elongated body or vein of ore. III. Pipe ·n...

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• Pipe

  (1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored thro...

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• pipe

  n. an obsolete word, explained inquotations. 1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105: «These w...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pipe

  A measure of wine containing two hogsheads, or 125 gallons, equal to half a tun. Also, a peculiar wh...

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• Pipe

  (Heb. chalil). The Hebrew word so rendered is derived from a root signifying "to bore, perforate" an...

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• Clay-brained

  ·adj <<Stupid>>. ...

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• Thick clay

  (Hab. 2:6) is correctly rendered in the Revised Version "pledges." The Chaldean power is here repres...

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• clay-pan

  n. name given, especially in the dryinterior of Australia, to a slight depression of the groundvary...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ball-clay

  Adhesive strong bottom, brought up by the flukes of the anchors in massy lumps. ...

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• Air pipe

  ·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe. ...

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• Blast pipe

  ·- The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as t...

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• Flue pipe

  ·add. ·- A pipe, ·esp. an organ pipe, whose tone is produced by the impinging of a current of air up...

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• Pipe layer

  ·- One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, ·etc. II. Pipe layer ·- A politi...

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• Pipe laying

  ·- The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, ·etc. II. Pipe laying ·- The act ...

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• Pipe line

  ·add. ·- A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, ·esp. petroleum,...

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• Pipe-line

  ·add. ·vt To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines. ...

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• Soil pipe

  ·add. ·- A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. ...

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• Twire-pipe

  ·noun A vagabond musician. ...

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• Water pipe

  ·- A pipe for conveying water. ...

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• The Pipe Yard

  1) In Whitefriars (Strype, ed 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) In Bristol Street, Pudd...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• clyster pipe

  A nick name for an apothecary. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• quail-pipe

  A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• whore pipe

  The penis. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pipe-fish

  n. common fishname. The speciespresent in Australia and New Zealand is Ichthyocampusfilum, Gunth., ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pipe-laying

  This term, in political parlance, means any arrangement by which a party makes sure of a certain add...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• swine-pipe

  i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pennant. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• blow-pipe

  An engine of offence used by the Araucanians and Borneans, and with the latter termed sumpitan: the ...

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• chain-pipe

  An aperture through which a chain-cable passes from the chain-well to the deck above. ...

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• deck-pipe

  An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker. ...

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• eduction pipe

  A pipe leading from the bottom of a steam-cylinder to the upper part of the condenser in a steam-eng...

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• gas-pipe

  A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced breech-loading rifle. ...

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• hawse-pipe

  A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable from cutting the wood. ...

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• injection-pipe

  This is fixed in the interior of a marine steam-engine, is fitted with a cock, and communicates with...

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• pipe down!

  The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship. ...

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• pipe-fish

  A fish of the genus Syngnathus, with an elongated slender body and long tubular mouth. ...

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• steam-pipe

  See waste steam-pipe. ...

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• Old Pipe Yard

  South out of Bristol Street to Lime Wharf (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). "The Pipe Yard" (Dodsley, 176...

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• blow-off-pipe

  , in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...

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