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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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Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or
the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas,
etc. |
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A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco,
and, sometimes, other substances. |
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A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the
windpipe, or one of its divisions. |
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The key or sound of the voice. |
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The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. |
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The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. |
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An elongated body or vein of ore. |
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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. |
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A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties;
also, the sound of it. |
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A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons;
also, the quantity which it contains. |
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To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind
instrument of music. |
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To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a
pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. |
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To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to
whistle. |
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To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of
an ingot, as of steel. |
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To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife,
etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. |
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To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. |
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To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or
a building. |
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