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ˈwater-pipe
1. A pipe through which water is conducted.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 666/37 Hec idraulis, waterpype. 14..Nominale Ibid. 738/12 Hic idraicus, a wadyrpype. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 392/1 Euripi,..water pipes of smaller size, so made, as that y⊇ water therin mounteth aloft. 1694Lond. Gaz. No. 3026/3 The Inhabitants of Paris..are to pay 50 Crowns for every Water-Pipe. 1707Mortimer Husb. 363 The Wood for Piles, Pumps, Hop-poles, Water-pipes. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Tale Drury Lane 165 Still o'er his head,..His whizzing water⁓pipe he waived. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz, Vauxhall Gardens, The fountain that had sparkled so showily by lamp-light, presented very much the appearance of a water-pipe that had burst. 1869Mozley Lett. (1885) 308 The workmen were laying down water-pipes in the hall as we entered.
2. transf.
†a. (See remarks under waterspout n. 3). Obs.
b. An underground spring or flow of water. poet.
1539Bible Ps. xlii. 8 One depe calleth another because of y⊇ noyse of thy water pipes. 1832Tennyson Dream Fair Women liii, Single I grew, like some green plant, whose root Creeps to the garden water-pipes beneath, Feeding the flower.
†c. A name for a kind of stalactite. Obs.
1681[see stalactites].
3. A hookah, narghile, or kalian.
1824Morier Hajji Baba viii, Ali Katir..had just lighted his water pipe. 1882O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 330 We saw the white-robed elders (smoking their water-pipes) seated on either side the entry. |