Pipe

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The key or sound of the voice.

II. Pipe ·noun An elongated body or vein of ore.

III. Pipe ·noun The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

IV. Pipe ·noun The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

V. Pipe ·vt To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

VI. Pipe ·vt To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

VII. Pipe ·vi To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

VIII. Pipe ·vi To become hollow in the process of solodifying;

— said of an ingot, as of steel.

IX. Pipe ·noun A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

X. Pipe ·vi To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to Whistle.

XI. Pipe ·noun A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

XII. Pipe ·noun A small bowl with a hollow steam, — used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

XIII. Pipe ·vi To call, convey orders, ·etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

XIV. Pipe ·noun A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

XV. Pipe ·vt To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, ·etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

XVI. Pipe ·noun Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, ·etc.

XVII. Pipe ·noun A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king;

— so called because put together like a pipe.

XVIII. Pipe ·noun A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an Organ.

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