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▪ I. pipe, n.1|paɪp|
Also 4–7 pype, 6 pyppe.
[OE. pípe fem. = OFris., MDu., MLG., LG. pîpe (EFris. pîpe, pîp, Du. pijp), OHG. pfîfa (MHG. pfîfe, Ger. pfeife), ON. pípa (Sw. pīpa, Da. pībe):—OLG. type *pípa, a. late L. *pīpa, f. pīpāre to peep, pipe, chirp (also pīpiāre). From L. pīpa with usual phonetic evolution came It. piva; an assumed popular form *pīppa gave It., Sp., Roum. pipa, F. pipe, Pr. pimpa; Ir. and Gael. piob, W. pib are from L. or Eng.]
I. A musical tube.
1. a. A musical wind-instrument consisting of a single tube of reed, straw, or (now usually) wood, blown by the mouth, such as a flageolet, flute, or oboe. (double pipe, an instrument formed with two such tubes.) Now chiefly arch. or Hist.
a1000[see pipe v.1 1]. a1023Wulfstan Hom. vi. (Napier) 46 Hearpe and pipe and mistlicgliᵹgamen dremað eow on beorsele. a1100Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 311/22 Musa, pipe oððe hwistle. c1205Lay. 3635 Þer wes bemene song, þer beden [? weren] pipen among. a1300Cursor M. 15011 Wit harp and pipe, and horn and trump. 1382Wyclif Luke vii. 32 We han soungun to ȝou with pipis, and ȝe han not daunsid. c1450Holland Howlat 761 The lilt pype, and the lute. 1535Coverdale Job xxx. 30 My harpe is turned to sorow, & my pipe to wepinge. 1637Milton Lycidas 124 Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. 1799Wordsw. Ruth ii, She had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw. 1864Engel Mus. Anc. Nat. 57 The double pipe..was well known to the Greeks and Romans. 1877J. Northcote Catacombs i. v. 72 The pastoral reed or tuneful pipe.
b. Each of the tubes (of wood or metal, and of construction similar to that of the simple instrument) by which the sounds are produced in an organ: see organ-pipe.
c1440Promp. Parv. 401/1 Pype, of orgonys, ydraula. 1552–3Inv. Ch. Goods, Staffs. in Ann. Lichfield (1863) IV. 47 A pere of orgaynes, one pype of brasse. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 4 b, Of diuerse lengths like Organe pipes. 1667Milton P.L. i. 709 As in an Organ from one blast of wind To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. i. 39 The pipes formed only of brass, must have been so shrill and piercing that [etc.]. 1847Tennyson Princ. ii. 450 While the great organ almost burst his pipes..rolling thro' the court A long melodious thunder.
c. Naut. The boatswain's whistle; the sounding of this as a call to the crew (cf. pipe v.1 6). Also pl. as a nickname for a boatswain (Naut. slang.).
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 30 The whistler with his iron Pipe encouraging the Marriners. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xxxviii, The pipe of the boatswain re-echoed as the captain ascended the side. 1856R. MacClure Discovery of North-West Passage xv. 233 ‘Pipes’ picked up a leg of the deer. 1873Routledge's Yng. Gentl. Mag. July 489/2 The pipe went for all hands to ‘scrub and wash clothes’. 1903H. Holmes Life & Adventures on Ocean 17 The boatswain, commonly called ‘Pipes’ for shortness, was warned by his superior officer to take every care. Ibid., ‘High enough,’ calls out Pipes. 1942Penguin New Writing XV. 8 When Pipes went for supper he had a side-parting and looked quite different.
d. pl. = bagpipes (cf. bagpipe 1 b). Also poet. in sing.
a1706R. Semple Piper of Kilbarchan vii, At Horse Races many a day..He gart his pipe, when he did play, Baith skirl and skreed. 1790Burns Tam O'Shanter 123 He screwed the pipes, and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. 1810,1862[see pibroch]. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iv. vi, The pipes resumed their clamorous strain. 1874G. Macdonald Malcolm xix, Duncan strode along in front, and Malcolm followed, carrying the pipes.
e. In fig. or allusive use: esp. in phr. † to put (pack) up one's pipes, to cease from action, speaking, etc., desist, ‘shut up’ (obs.).
1556Olde Antichrist 148 Than maye the B[ishop] of Rome put up his pypes. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 12 He could haue found in his hart to haue packt vp hys pipes, and to haue gone to heauen. a1758Ramsay Eagle & Robin 49 Poke up your pypes, be nae mair sene At court. 1775Sheridan Rivals ii. i, To make herself the pipe and ballad⁓monger of a circle! 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 16 None..had more pipes blown about in his ironic praise. [note, Pipes, a colonial term for pasquinades and squibs, personal and political].
2. transf.
a. The voice, esp. as used in singing; the song or note of a bird, etc. Formerly also in pl. † to set up one's pipes, to cry aloud, shout, yell (obs.); to tune one's pipes, to begin to cry, i.e. weep (Sc.).
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 278 Where vnder a sweete Arbour..be byrdes recording theyr sweete notes, hee also strayned his olde pype. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 188 A straunge orator straining his pipes, to perswade straunge people. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. iv. 32 Thy small pipe Is as the maidens organ, shrill, and sound. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 381 They did not speak softly, but set up their pipes aloud. 1721Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 81 The Bullfinch and Robin-Red-Breast speak in a Treble Tone or Pipe. 1749Smollett Gil Blas i. v. I. 23 Setting up my pipes, as if he had flead me. 1785J. Trusler Mod. Times II. 185 She was a very pretty woman..and had a very sweet pipe. 1843Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii, He..will occasionally lift up his little pipe in a glee. 1889Jefferies Field & Hedg. 229 The thin pipe of the gnat heard at night.
b. ? Sc. phr. to take a pipe, to weep, cry. (Cf. pipe v.1 5 d, 7, piping vbl. n.1 3.)
1818Hogg Brownie of B. II. 155 He's takin a pipe to himsel at the house-end..his heart..is as saft as a snaw-ba'.
II. A cylindrical tube or stick for other purposes.
3. a. A hollow cylinder of wood, metal, or other substance, for the conveyance of water, gas, vapour, etc., or for other purposes; a tube.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 126 Monnes heafod ban bærn to ahsan, do mid pipan on. 1396Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 123 In pypys emp. pro campanis, 4d. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. i. (Tollem. MS.), Yf a welle spryngeþ in þe coppe of an hyll, ofte by pipes þe water is ledde to þe same hyȝnesse in to a noþer hyll. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxii. 100 Þam behoues souke it with a rede or a pype. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi. (1555), Many gargoyle..With spoutes thorough & pipes. 1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 35 The saide water hath bene conueied vnder erth in pypes of leade. 1662Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass 364 The Pipes are the hollow Irons to blow the Glass. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. iv, Water, to be conveyed up by pipes and engines. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 304 The barometer..is composed of a glass tube or pipe..closed up at one end. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 408 The Sucking-pump consists of two pipes, the barrel and suction-pipe. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 200 Pipes, containing either hot water or steam. 1893Law Times XCV. 62/2 An inspector..tested the drain, when he found that the joints of the pipes were not properly cemented.
b. to lay pipe or pipes, i.e. for the supply of water or gas; fig. in U.S. political slang: see quots. and cf. pipe-laying.
1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. s.v. Pipe-laying, To lay pipe means to bring up voters not legally qualified. 1861Lond. Rev. 16 Feb. 169 The gentlemen who succeed in appropriating these small measures will be laying down very good ‘pipe’ for Leeds, Southampton, &c. 1862Fraser's Mag. July 28 To charge him, in the technical language of his party, with ‘pulling wires’, and ‘laying pipes’ for the Presidency.
c. U.S. slang. Something that is easy to accomplish; a ‘cinch’. Cf. lead-pipe. Also attrib., as pipe course.
1902‘H. McHugh’ It's up to You iii. 66 It was so easy it was a shame... ‘The idea is Napoleonic, little woman!’ I said. ‘It's a pipe!’ 1927Amer. Speech II. 277/2 Pipe course, easy course. 1936L. C. Douglas White Banners ii. 44 A procession of shamefaced athletes who..had thought erroneously, when they had registered for it, that Anglo-Saxon was ‘a pipe’. 1951M. Shulman Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1953) 105 You are all freshmen..and you may not be familiar with the term ‘pipe course’. A pipe course is a course where students can get passing grades without doing much work. This is not a pipe course. 1952Wodehouse Barmy in Wonderland viii. 80 This show's a pipe, and any bird that comes in is going to make plenty. 1978H. Kemelman Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out x. 57 Nothing to it... Believe me, the whole thing's a pipe.
4. Applied to various specific tubular or cylindrical objects or contrivances.
†a. Some part of horse-harness; prob. a leather tube through which the traces were passed to prevent chafing against the horse's sides. Obs. (Cf. piping vbl. n.2 5.)
1309Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 506 (Mariscall.) In..iij paribus de pipes. 1333–4Ibid. 523, viij pipes pro tractubus. [1418in Rymer Fœdera (1709) IX. 543/1 Cum..Stuffurâ rationabili de Pipis, Rigeboundes, Bellibondes..pro Equis.]
†b. A tubular handle or staff in which a banner or cross was fitted, to be carried in procession. Obs.
1397Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 445 Quinque pipes de argento cum cruce argentia et deaurata..pro vexillo S'ci Cuthberti. 1466in Archæologia (1887) L. i. 42 Item j staf for to set on the pypys for the crosse. 1552Inv. Ch. Goods (Surtees) 104, ij coper crosses..pypes belongyng to them. 1593Rites of Durham (Surtees 1903) 22 A goodly and sumptuous banner..with pippes of siluer..with a device to taike of and on y⊇ said pipes.
†c. A tube or roll on which thread was wound, and on which a definite length was bought. Obs.
c1440Paston Lett. I. 39, I prey yow do byen for me ij. pypys of gold [i.e. gold thread].
†d. in pl. A form in which gold and silver were used to trim dresses, etc. Obs.
1533in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 26 A gyrdell of pyppes of silver. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 7 On their heades skayus and wrappers of Damaske golde with flatte pypes. 1556Inv. Ch. Goods (Surtees) 110 [Vestments] one chekeryd with grene velvet and litle silver pipes. 1600in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. (1823) III. 502 One Frenche gowne of blacke vellat, with an edge of purle, and pipes of gold.
e. Name for the large round cell in a honeycomb inhabited by the queen bee. dial.
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 104–5 The Queen's cells are built single... In fashion they are round... The common people..call them Pipes, or Taps. 1847–78Halliw., Pipe, a large round cell in a beehive used by the queen bee. West.
f. An underground passage, a burrow.
1738[G. Smith] Curious Relations II. 453 The old Beavers harbour the whole Winter in the Pipes, to which they remove in the beginning of November. 1887S. Cheshire Gloss., Pipe, a branch or side-run in a rabbit-warren.
g. pl. (slang.) Top-boots.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Pipes, boots. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, Jist twig his swell kickseys and pipes [note, Breeches and boots].
h. A piece of confectionery, etc. of a tubular or cylindrical form. (Cf. piping vbl. n.2 8.)
a1851Pereira in Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 204/1 Sugar constitutes the base of..hard confectionary, sold under the names of lozenges, brilliants, pipe, rock, comfits, nonpareils, &c. 1883R. Haldane Workshop Receipts Ser. ii. 175/1 Roll it [the liquorice] into pipes or cylinders of convenient lengths. Ibid. 355/1 Isinglass..under the names of ‘leaf’, ‘staple’, ‘book’, ‘pipe’,..according to its form.
i. ‘One of the curved flutings of a frill or ruff; also, a pin used for piping or fluting’ (Cent. D.).
1813Jane Austen Let. 16 Sept. (1952) 326 My Cap is come... Fanny has one also..shaped round the face..with pipes & more fullness, & a round crown inserted behind.
j. In hair-dressing: see quot. 1860.
1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VIII. xxviii, I'll put your white Ramallie-wig fresh into pipes. 1860Fairholt Costume Gloss., Pipes, small articles made of pipe-clay used for keeping the large periwigs in curl.
k. A tubular part of something, e.g. of a key.
1833Regul. Instr. Cavalry i. 99 Draw the ramrod out of the barrel, and return it into the pipe. 1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa I. 161 The holsters should be sufficiently capacious to carry in one pipe the..double barrelled pistol: in the other, a brandy-flask. 1853Hobbs & Tomlinson Locks xi. 159 The process of piercing the key consists in making the pipe or barrel. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 29 A stop for the pipe of the detent. Ibid. 101 The pipe that carries the minute hand.
5.
†a. The account of a sheriff or other minister of the Crown, as sent in and enrolled at the Exchequer: cf. pipe-roll. Obs.[The origin of this use of pipe is doubtful: some would explain it from the pipe-like form of a thin roll, or ? from its being transmitted in a cylindrical case. Bacon saw in it a metaphor: see quot. 1598 in b., and cf. sense 8; but we have no evidence that that sense was in use early in the 14th c.] [1323Red Book of the Exchequer (1896) 858 Soient desore annuelement tutes les pipes de tutz les accomptes renduz en lan [all the pipes of all the accounts sent in in the year] bien et pleynement examinez, avant qe eles soient mises ensemble et roule fait de eles, a la fyn del an. Ibid. 860 Et face il, en fyn del an, les pipes des accomptes foreyns mettre par eux, et les autres pipes des acomptes des viscountes [pipes of the accounts of the sheriffs] par eux. ]
fig.1565Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 126 Are such Monuments laid vp only in the Roles and Pipes of your memorie?
b. The department of the Exchequer that drew up the ‘pipes’, or enrolled accounts, of sheriffs and others, abolished in England by Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 99 §41 (= pipe-office: see 11 b).
[1338Rolls of Parlt. II. 101/1 Brief des somons hors de la Pipe.] 1455Ibid. V. 342/2 The Office of the Clerk of the Pipe. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 18 §3 The same accomptes..to be taken & fylled uppe in the pype theyr to remayne of recorde. 1598Bacon Office of Alienations Wks. 1879 I. 588 That office of her Majesty's exchequer, which we, by a metaphor, do call the pipe,..because the whole receipt is finally conveyed into it by the means of divers small pipes or quills. 1658Phillips, Clerk of the Pipe, an Officer in the Exchequer, who having all accounts and debts due unto the King, drawn out of the remembrancers Office, chargeth them down into the great Roll. 1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5298/3 The Right Honourable William Lord Cheyne..to be Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer. 1738Hist. Crt. Excheq. ii. 18 The Summons of the Pipe got in the Tallages. 1834Act 4 & 5 Will. IV, c. 16 §1 The Office of Recorder of the Great Roll or Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer in Scotland shall cease and determine.
6. A tubular organ, passage, canal, or vessel in an animal body: applied to the veins and arteries, the alimentary canal, and now esp. to the respiratory passages (windpipe, bronchi, and tubules of the lungs). Almost always in pl. (See also pipe-opener in 11 b.)
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1894 The pipes of his longes gonne to swelle. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 8 Take Pypis, Hertys, Nerys, Myltys, an Rybbys of the Swyne. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 21 His feete ware ful coolde... No mouing of his pypys might be knowen long tyme. 1573–80Baret Alv. P 394 The meate Pipe, gula..λαιµὸς. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 57 The nauill..is appointed to be the pipe to conuey both [breath and meat] vnto him before he be borne. 1633Ford Broken H. v. ii, I am well skill'd in letting blood. Bind fast This arm, that so the pipes may from their conduits Convey a full stream. 1712Addison Spect. No. 269 ⁋3 He loves to clear his Pipes in good Air (to make use of his own Phrase). 1883E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leicestersh. 4 Depth of girth he [the horse] must have, or his pipes and heart have no room to play.
7. a. Applied to various tubular or cylindrical natural formations, as the stem of a plant, etc.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §70 Lowe places, and all the holowe bunnes and pypes that growe therin. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xliii. 202 This kinde of Lillie beareth..amongst his leaues as it were certayne pypes or clysters. 1753Franklin Lett., etc. Wks. 1840 VI. 155 When the whirling pipe of air was filled with..vapor. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 74 The strongest wheat-straw..laid on upon the building in whole pipes, unbruised by the flail.
†b. An icicle. Obs.
1556–68Withals Dict. 3/1 The iseicles or pypes hangynge vppon the eaues of a house. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 46 To thow the pypes and schokles of yce, frosin vpon thame.
c. Mining and Geol. (a) A vein of ore of a more or less cylindrical form, usually following the direction of the strata; also called pipe-vein (see 11 b), pipe-work. (b) A vertical cylindrical hollow filled with sand or gravel, occurring in a stratum of chalk; also called sand-pipe or sand-gall. (c) The vertical eruptive channel which opens into the crater of a volcano. (d) Each of the vertical cylindrical masses of blue rock (of eruptive origin) in which diamonds are found imbedded in S. Africa (see kimberlite).
1667Primatt City & C. Build. 5 If there be any rakes or pipes of Lead or Tin Oar. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. L iv b, Lidd [is] the Cover that lies over the Tops of Veins sometimes, but over Pipes always. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 832 The pipe does not in general cut the strata across like the rake vein, but insinuates itself between them; so that if the plane of the strata be nearly horizontal, the bearing of the pipe vein will be conformable. 1860Darwin in Life & Lett. II. 332 You used to be interested about the ‘pipes’ in the chalk. 1873E. J. Dunn in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. (1874) XXX. 54 The contents of these ‘pipes’ in the shale are the same in all cases, and show distinctly that they are of igneous origin. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 189 At the mouth of the volcanic pipe, there is usually a funnel-shaped opening known as the crater. 1889Chambers' Cycl. s.v. Diamond. 1903 Daily Chron. 2 June 2/3 Diamonds..only appear at the surface in places where they have shared in a volcanic upheaval. Hence they are found in what are technically known as pipes.
d. Each of the numerous hollow jets of flame which occur in a particular process of the manufacture of black-ash (ash n.2 2).
1880J. Lomas Alkali Trade 175 Just as the pipes begin to disappear, the bright hot mass is raked out quickly. Ibid. 176 Bright jets of carbonic oxide, burning with a sodium yellow, and usually called ‘pipes’, should be visible all over the ball.
e. Metallurgy. A funnel-shaped cavity at the top of an ingot caused by shrinkage of the metal during cooling.
1861Brit. Patent 1310 2 Shrinkage forms a deep tube or funnel in the upper part of the ingot... This funnel is called by steel manufacturers the ‘pipe’ of the ingot. 1895E. L. Rhead Metallurgy xi. 147 Steel of harder temper..settles down in the mould, forming a funnel-shaped cavity or pipe. 1923Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics V. 357/2 If this takes place any shrinkage of the metal during further solidification must result in the formation of a pipe. 1973J. G. Tweeddale Materials Technol. II. ii. 36 Metal ingots..are often cast with open tops and the defective top material, including any pipe, is usually cut off subsequently.
8.
†a. The channel of a small stream. Obs. rare.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 199 Divers other smal pipes of water..minister secondarie helpes to this navigable river. Ibid. 260 The greater ryvers..have their increase from many smal Wels (or springs) the which..bee conveied in slender quilles, then afterwarde (meeting together in course) doe growe by little and little into bigger pipes.
b. Each of the channels of a decoy for wild fowl: see decoy n.2 1.
1634–5Brereton Trav. (1844) 171 There are five pipes in this coy as in mine. 1768Pennant Zool. II. 464 There are several pipes (as they are called) which lead up a narrow ditch, that closes at last with a funnel net. Over these pipes..is a continued arch of netting... It is necessary to have a pipe or ditch for almost every wind that can blow. 1887Fenn Dick o' Feus (1888) 112 Quite a hundred followed their leaders up the pipe in happy ignorance of the meaning of a net.
†9. A name for the Mock Orange or Syringa (Philadelphus coronarius; also, for the Lilac (Blue Pipe), rendering the med.L. name Syringa. Obs. rare. (See pipe-tree.)
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. lvii. 1214 The later Phisitions call the first Syringa,..that is to say, a Pipe, bicause the stalks and branches thereof, when the pith is taken out, are hollow like a Pipe. It is also..surnamed Candida or white, or Syringa candido flore, or Pipe with a white flower..Lillach.. is sometimes named Syringa cœrulea, or blue Pipe.
III. A pipe for smoking.
10. a. A narrow tube of clay, wood, or other material, with a bowl at one end, for drawing in the smoke of tobacco (or other narcotic or medicinal substance). Often used as including the contained tobacco, etc., as in to light one's pipe, to smoke a pipe; also for a quantity which fills the bowl and is smoked at one time, a pipeful. (See also tobacco-pipe.)
1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 29 Wee..will not vouchsafe one pipe of Tabacco vpon her. 1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner P v b, The fume taken in a Pipe, is good against Rumes, Catarrhs, hoarsenesse. 1611Rich Honest. Age (Percy Soc.) 37 He must haue his pipe of Tobacco. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 205 Because of the long pipes, the smoake is exceeding cold in their swallowing throates. 1683Tryon Way to Health 168 Now every Plow-man has his Pipe to himself. 1736I. H. Browne Pipe Tobacco Poems (1768) 116 Happy mortal! he who knows Pleasure which a Pipe bestows. 1766T. Amory Buncle (1825) II. 1, I smoked a pipe after supper. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 247 The guns were laid down, and the pipe was lighted. 1902Buchan Watcher by Threshold 7, I lit a pipe to cheer me.
b. pipe of peace: the calumet, or peace-pipe of the American Indians. Also used allusively.
1722R. Beverley Hist. Virginia Tab. vi. 144–5 Pipe of peace wch I have seen. 1762Foote Lyar i. (1786) 17, I had the first honour of smoaking the pipe of peace with the little Carpenter. 1812Brackenridge Views Louisiana (1814) 91 The chiefs approached with pipes of peace. 1870M. Bridgman Rob. Lynne II. xii. 261 They had better smoke the pipe of peace.
c. Queen's (King's) Pipe: humorous name for a furnace at the London Docks, used formerly for burning contraband tobacco, subsequently for burning tobacco-sweepings and other refuse.
[1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 17/2 The damaged tobacco..is consumed in a furnace..jocularly termed the ‘queen's tobacco-pipe’.] 1871Echo 25 Jan., If the sale is not brisk, then her Majesty's tobacco-pipe, which smokes tobacco by the ton, is likely soon to be well filled. This ‘pipe’, or furnace, is at the London Docks, and in it vast quantities of tobacco..that have failed to sell in the Government sales, are burnt. 1895Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 3/2 The rubbish which had got packed with the leaf..goes to fill the Queen's pipe—is, in fact, burned. 1904Daily News 28 June 6 ‘The King's Pipe’... The disorderly heaps of fuel included ‘heads’ of American tobacco.., Turkish leaves strung on a string, fragments of packing cases, and general litter.
d. In allusive phrases.
to put one's pipe out, to put a stop to one's success, take the ‘shine’ out of, extinguish. put that in your pipe and smoke it, digest or put up with that if you can (also in similar phrases).
1720Ramsay Wealth 78 Upmost to-day, the morn their pipe's put out. c1824R. B. Peake Americans Abroad (1884) i. 4/2 Put that in your pipe and smoke it. 1837Dickens Pickw. ii. 7 Pull him up—put that in his pipe—like the flavour—damned rascals. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. St. Odille, Put that in your pipe, my lord Otto, and smoke it! 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxiv. heading, James Crawley's Pipe is put out. 1863Reade Hard Cash xli, I'll give you something to put in both your pipes. 1884W. E. Norris Thirlby Hall xxv, It don't do to let them get the whip⁓hand of you, according to my experience. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Master Charley. 1884Florence Marryat Under Lilies & Roses xxx, You're jealous of the girl, and want me to put her pipe out. 1921Galsworthy To Let i. ix. 81 The noble owner put this opinion in his pipe and smoked it for a year. 1927Vanity Fair XXIX. iii. 67/2 ‘Laugh That Off!’ (‘Put that in your pipe and smoke it.’) 1947W. S. Maugham Creatures of Circumstance 296 I'm engaged to her, so put that in your pipe and smoke it. 1977A. Hunter Gently Instrumental x. 136 There's a dozen witnesses, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it.
e. N. Amer. colloq. A spell of travelling between two rest-periods at each of which a pipe is smoked; the distance covered or the time taken, in such a spell; also, the distance covered while smoking a pipeful of tobacco. Obs. exc. Hist.
1793J. Macdonell Diary 5 July in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 92 Leaving pointe au père we paddled two pipes and put to shore to give the men time to clean themselves. 1799I. Weld Trav. N. Amer. xxix. 262 A pipe, in the most general acceptation of the word, seemed to be about three quarters of an English mile. 1806S. Fraser Jrnl. 29 May (1960) 193 The men are better off and better pleased than if they ate a little at every Pipe. 1809‘D. Knickerbocker’ Hist. N.Y. I. iii. viii. 189 He arrived at Fort Amsterdam in little less than a month, though the distance was full two hundred pipes, or about 120 miles. 1848R. M. Ballantyne Hudson's Bay iv. 77 The men used to row for a space of time, denominated a pipe, so called from the circumstance of their taking a smoke at the end of it. 1931G. L. Nute Voyageur 50 We have seen that the voyageurs had their own method of measuring portages. They were not less original on the water. Here the pipe was the standard of measurement. This was the distance covered between respites, when the luxury of resting and smoking was indulged. 1969E. W. Morse Fur Trade Canoe Routes i. i. 8 A stop was made for a few minutes each hour to allow the men to have a pipe. This event was so important that distances came to be measured in pipes: ‘trois pipes’ might be 15 to 20 miles, depending on winds and current.
f. An opium-pipe; esp. in phr. to hit the pipe, to smoke opium; also, an opium-addict. slang (orig. U.S.).
1886,1902[see hit v. 23 a]. 1926J. Black You can't Win xix. 300, I..learned he had been ‘on the pipe’ only three months. 1926N. Lucas London & its Criminals x. 134 So ‘Izzy’ had come to ‘hitting the pipe’. I knew he had many vices, but I did not know that opium was one of them. 1949Sunday World-Herald Mag. (Omaha, Nebraska) 3 Apr. 2/1 Opium smokers are considered at a low level..but a guy who profits when he hits the pipe is the plumber. 1959Murtagh & Harris Who live in Shadow iii. i. 119 You can recognize ‘pipes’, opium addicts, by the odour which clings to them. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xi. 95 Max insisted that they go on to Madame Phnom's plush smoking establishment for a pipe or two.
IV. attrib. and Comb.
11. a. Obvious combinations, as pipe-like adj.; (in sense 1 or 1 d) pipe-clang, pipe-music, pipe-playing (playing on a pipe, or with a tobacco-pipe); (in sense 3) pipe-casting, pipe-coating, pipe-fitter, pipe-founding, pipe-jointer, pipe-manufacturing, pipe-track; (in sense 10) pipe-bowl, pipe-champer, pipe-fill, pipe-lighter, pipe-lover, pipe-shank, pipe-smoke, pipe-smoker, pipe-smoking, pipe-spill, pipe-weed, pipe-whiff; pipe-drawn, pipe-puffed adjs.
1886Daily News 13 Dec. 2/3 The Plumbers' Company... The examinations included *pipe bending, joint making, the formation of roof gutters, cisterns, &c.
1852Dickens Bleak Ho. (1853) xxi. 213 The *pipe-bowl..is burning low. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile i. 9 Red clay pipe-bowls of all sizes and prices.
1898Daily News 10 Oct. 9/5 Foundry iron—which is being used mainly for *pipe casting.
1712Steele Spect. No. 431 ⁋3 These craving Damsels..*Pipe-champers, Chalk-lickers, Wax-nibblers [etc.].
1814Scott Ld. of Isles vi. xx, *Pipe-clang and bugle sound.
1964N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. v. 80 The highly viscous bitumen which forms the remainder of the distillation residue is used for..corrosion-proof *pipe-coatings. 1975Offshore Engineer Oct. 13/1 The UK pipe-coating market is split..between two firms.
1761Churchill Rosciad 870 Thus sportive boys, around some bason's brim, Behold the *pipe-drawn bladders circling swim.
1890Webster, *Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. 1910Daily Chron. 31 Jan. 6/5 Arthur Moon, aged 45, a pipe-fitter. 1977Cornish Times 19 Aug. 15/3 He won first-year plumber and pipe-fitter prize.
1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 786/1 Some Notes on *Pipe Founding. E. Kebler. Read before the Foundry-men's Assn., England.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 509/2 A record should be kept of the history of the pipe.., with the name of the *pipe-jointer whose work closes the record.
1909Dialect Notes III. 357 *Pipe-lighter, a paper spill or taper used for lighting lamps, pipes, etc. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 57 Each man had with him one of those tinder pipe-lighters which are ignited by the sparks of a little twirled wheel.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 355 The *pipe-like barke. 1884Pall Mall G. 5 Dec. 12/1 The pipelike passage leading to the chamber underneath the caisson.
1896Westm. Gaz. 29 May 8/1 At one time in Skye there were two schools, or colleges, for *pipe music—one at Borreraig..and the other at Peingowan.
a1618Sylvester Tobacco Battered 70 *Pipe-playing, dallying.
Ibid. 710 Through his *Pipe-puft Nose more Smoake they wave, Then all the Chimnies their great Houses have.
1852Dickens Bleak Ho. (1853) xi. 105 A cloud of *pipe-smoke..pervades the parlor. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xvi. 231, I got home to be met by..the smell of pipe smoke curling round from the hallway. 1979M. Eden Document of Last Nazi xix. 96 Strang smelled old pipe smoke.
1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt II. xxx. 229 Rough-looking *pipe-smokers, or distinguished cigar-smokers. 1959Listener 25 June 1119/1 His plain, factual, forthright sentences—a sort of pipe-smoker's prose—deceptively bare and simple, convey the scene..with a telling clarity.
1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xxxiv. 338 I'll have no more of your *pipe-smokings and swaggerings. 1958J. Byrom Or be he Dead vii. 106 The pipe-smoking young man in the open-necked shirt. 1979J. van de Wetering Maine Massacre iv. 52 A pipe⁓smoking old man. 1979Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. a7/1 A single match and an even draw gave the world's international pipe-smoking cup to a..physics teacher yesterday.
1922Joyce Ulysses 530 Pages will be torn from your handbook of astronomy to make them *pipespills.
a1906Mod. We ascended Table Mountain in 1905 by the *Pipe-track and the Tunnel Gorge.
1955J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King 270 And if you have any *pipe-weed, we'll bless you.
1846Browning Lett. 29 June, Between two huge *pipe-whiffs.
b. Special Combinations: pipe-bag, the leathern bag of the bagpipe; pipe-bearer, an attendant who bears the pipe (of an American Indian chief, and Oriental ruler or official, etc.); pipe-beetle, one of the Curculionidæ, so called from their long proboscis; pipe-bender, a machine or device for bending a metal pipe; pipe berth, a collapsible or otherwise easily-stored canvas bed with a frame of metal piping used on small vessels; pipe bomb, a home-made bomb contained in a metal pipe; pipe-box, (a) ? a box for containing tobacco pipes; (b) the box of the hub of a wheel, in which the arm of the axle is inserted (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); pipe-burial, a burial in which a pipe (usually of lead) passes from the coffin or the tomb to the surface of the ground, to permit the pouring of libations; pipe-case, a case for a tobacco-pipe or its bowl; pipe chaplet Founding, a chaplet (sense 6) used in the casting of pipes, which consists of a concave semi-cylindrical load-bearing surface supported on a stem; pipe-clamp = pipe-vice; pipe-cleaner, something used for cleaning a tobacco-pipe; spec. a device for this purpose consisting of a piece of wire covered with tufted material; also fig.; † pipe-coal, powdered coal or coal-dust formed into tubular briquettes; pipe-coral, ? = organ-pipe coral (see coral n.1 1 b); pipe cot = pipe berth; pipe-coupling, a coupling for joining two pipes so as to form a continuous channel, or for attaching a pipe to something else; pipe-cutter, a tool or machine for cutting off pipes; pipe-dance, a dance resembling the sword-dance, in which long clay pipes are used instead of swords; pipe-die, (a) a ring-shaped die for moulding earthenware pipes; (b) a female screw or nut, or other device, for cutting a screw-thread on a pipe; pipe-drain v. trans., to drain (land) by laying pipes; chiefly in pa. pple.; pipe-dream orig. U.S., a fantastic or impracticable notion or plan, compared to a dream produced by smoking opium; a ‘castle in the air’; hence pipe-dreamer; pipe-dreaming vbl. n.; pipe-dreamy a.; pipe-driver (see quot.); pipe-ear, a projecting part at the side of the top of a pipe; pipe-fiend U.S. slang, an opium addict or smoker; pipe-foot, the lower part of a flue-pipe in an organ; † pipe gled Sc. Obs., ? the kite (glede); pipe grab, a clutching-tool for lifting a well-pipe; pipe-gun, (a) dial., a pop-gun; (b) a gun made out of a pipe; pipe-head, (a) the bowl of a pipe for smoking; (b) the top of a water-pipe; pipe-holder, a perforated board in an organ, through which some of the pipes pass; pipe-insect (see quot.); pipe-joint = pipe-coupling; pipe-key, a key with a pipe or hollow barrel which fits on a pintle in the lock, a piped key; pipe-lee, tobacco half smoked to ashes in a pipe; pipe-light, a strip of paper folded or twisted for lighting a pipe, a spill; pipe-loop (see quot.); pipe-macaroni, macaroni made in the form of pipes or tubes; pipe-major, the chief player of a band of bagpipe-players; pipe-maker, a maker of pipes (in various senses); pipe-metal, an alloy of tin and lead, with or without zinc, used for organ-pipes; † pipe-money, money given to a piper, or for playing a pipe; pipe-necked a., having a long slender neck; pipe-note, a note or sound made by a pipe; a note like that of a pipe, a piping note; pipe-office, the office of the Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer (see 5); in quot. 1609 humorously used for the mouth (with allusion to sense 10); pipe-opener (colloq.), a spell of exercise taken to clear the respiratory passages and replenish the lungs with fresh air, a ‘breather’; also fig., a ‘trial run’ or ‘curtain-raiser’; pipe-ore (see quot.); pipe-organ, an organ with pipes (= organ n.1 2), esp. as distinguished from a reed-organ; pipe oven (see quot.); pipe-privet, a name for the lilac; = pipe-tree (Miller Plant-names 1884); pipe-prover, an apparatus for testing the strength and soundness of steam- or water-pipes by hydraulic pressure; pipe-rack, (a) in an organ, a wooden shelf with perforations by which the pipes are supported; (b) a rack for tobacco-pipes; (c) a rack or support for a set of pipelines above the ground; pipe-reducer, a pipe-coupling larger at one end than at the other to unite pipes differing in diameter; pipe-skill, skill in playing the bagpipe; pipe-stand, a stand or frame for supporting a pipe or pipes (in any sense); pipe-stay (see quot.); pipe-stick, a hollow wooden tube used as the stem of a tobacco-pipe; pipe-still, a still in which crude oil is heated by passing it through a series of tubes inside a furnace; pipe-stop, (a) a plug or stopvalve in a pipe; (b) an organ-stop composed of mouth-pipes (as distinguished from a reed-stop), a flue-stop; pipe-stopper, a small plug for compressing the tobacco in the bowl of a pipe; pipe-story, a fantastic or impossible story (cf. pipe-dream); pipe-tongs, tongs made to grasp a pipe or rod; pipe-twister = pipe-wrench; pipe-vein (Mining): see quots. and 7 c (a); pipe-vice (-vise), a vice for grasping a pipe or rod; pipe-vine, a name for the N. American plant Aristolochia Sipho, from the shape of the flowers and the twining growth (also called Dutchman's pipe); pipe-water, water conveyed by pipes; pipe-wood, name for Leucothoe (Andromeda) acuminata, a shrub of the southern U.S., the wood of which is used for tobacco-pipes; pipe-worm, a Sabella, Serpula, or allied tube-worm; pipe-wrench , a tool with one jaw fixed on a shank and the other movable on a pivot, so shaped as to grip a pipe when turned in one direction round it. See also pipe-clay, pipe-fish, etc.
1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 93 Pipe could he not..His *pipe-bagge torn, no wind it could keepe in.
1836W. Irving Astoria I. 315 The *pipebearer stepped within the circle, lighted the pipe..then..handed it to the principal chief. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xxi. 602 The turbaned official who comes, attended by his secretary and pipe-bearer, to pay you a visit of ceremony.
1711Phil. Trans. XXVII. 344 One of the largest kind of Curculio or *Pipe Beetles yet seen.
1933Chapman & Horenburger Thirty Easy to build Sail Boats 89/2 A *pipe berth can be fitted over each berth for the extra guest. 1963J. T. Rowland North to Adventure vii. 90 With all the pipe berths folded back against the ship's side, the cabin became a capacious hold. 1976–7Sea Spray (N.Z.). Dec./Jan. 51/2 The Sands design No 2218 offers four berths, pipe quarter berth, two seat berths amidships and a pipe berth in the foc'sle.
1966Guardian 5 Sept. 1/7 The headquarters of the American Communist Party was damaged by a *pipe-bomb tossed from a moving car. 1971Sunday Times 31 Oct. 10 Pipe bombs are another favourite anti-personnel bomb. 1977Time 26 Dec. 26/2 Last August a tipster directed police to a pipe bomb at a Coors recycling plant in a Denver suburb.
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Shops & Tenants, Lounging about, on round tubs and *pipe⁓boxes.
1929Antiquaries Jrnl. IX. 1 (heading) A Roman *pipe-burial from Caerleon, Monmouthshire.
1934Laing & Rolfe Man. Foundry Pract. iii. 57 *Pipe-chaplets..can be obtained, either in the form illustrated, or with short pointed stems, their chief purpose being to support pipe cores in position. 1960R. Lister Decorative Cast Ironwork ii. 26 Of the types in regular use, special mention may be made of the pipe chaplet.., usually made of tinned wrought iron, and consisting of a pin with a semicylinder at one end. It is used to support the round core in pipe casting.
1870G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 132 The heads of flowering grass..often used as *pipe-cleaners. 1928E. Waugh Decline & Fall i. ii. 18 A boxing-glove, a bowler hat, yesterday's Daily News and a packet of pipe-cleaners. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 169 Thin people inspire almost as many names and jokes as fat people, but the laughter is less mortifying; the names..are merely descriptive, as: bag o' bones,..pipe cleaner, rake, [etc.]. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. (Suppl.) 8/2 You can easily make a fine collection of animals with one or two packets of pipe-cleaners! Look at the sketch, A, to see how the woolly covered cleaners are bent to form the outline of a giraffe. 1973D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town iii. 42, I tried to help but it wasn't easy with legs made out of pipe cleaners.
1612Sturtevant Metallica xiv. 98 Tempering, stamping, and comixing of sea-cole, or stone-cole, that a kinde of substance being there made of them like vnto past or tempered clay, the Presse-mould may forme and transfigure that clay-like substance into hollow *pipe-cole as it doth earthen pipes.
1832R. & J. Lander Exped. Niger II. viii. 4 Small pieces of *pipe coral were stuck in the lobe of each ear.
1962W. H. Murray Maelstrom iii. 42 Forward again was the fo'c'scle, with *pipe-cots and deck-hatch. 1977Western Morning News 1 Sept. 8/6 (Advt.), Six Ton Sloop..24 ft. oa., pine on oak, two berth and pipe cot.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 12/2 Sometimes they do the ‘*pipe-dance’. For this a number of tobacco-pipes..are laid close together on the floor, and the dancer places the toe of his boot between the different pipes.
1907E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock Pasture & Meadow Anal. 4 A soil that has been *pipe drained for wheat-growing. 1930Jrnl. Ministry Agric. Nov. 825 There is nothing to indicate..whether the land is pipe-drained or not.
1896Ade Artie iii. 27 But then I was spinnin' *pipe dreams myself, tellin' about how much I lose on the board and all that. 1904B. von Hutten Pam 238 Look at the sea, and tell me if, in your wildest pipe⁓dream, you ever saw anything lovelier. 1915Strand Mag. June 651/2 If it is a fizzle off goes my coat and I abandon pipe-dreams of literary triumph. 1937John o' London's 26 Mar. 1/3 As my ideal library will never be anything but a pipe-dream, no great harm is done. 1959Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 6 In that event, the Channel project would cease to be an engineers' pipe-dream. 1973C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing xiv. 150 Streamlining..was pure Whitehall jargon... It implied increased efficiency at less cost and..that was just a pipe dream. 1976Classical Q. XXVI. 80 After 394 a Hellenic crusade against Persia was merely a pipe-dream.
1976C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) i. 47 He was always a *pipe-dreamer. Always in the clouds. 1979Eastern Economist 14 Sept. 545/2 Only pipe-dreamers would have the phantasies that man uses his tools only for what is called constructively productive purposes.
1976Flintshire Leader 10 Dec. 1 Some of the council's figures relating to the Leisure Centre are an exercise in *pipe dreaming. 1978C. A. Berry Gentleman of Road ii. 14, I couldn't chicken out now. It was time for pipe-dreaming to end.
1910‘O. Henry’ Whirligigs i. 12 La Paz is a good sort of a *pipe-dreamy old hole.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Pipe-driver, an implement of the general form of a pile-driver, used for forcing into the ground pipes for what are known as ‘driven wells’.
1905Athenæum 29 Apr. 534/1 The fronts of pipe-heads and the *pipe ears were often heraldically treated.
1913G. J. Kneeland Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City iv. 90 One of the best known [pimps] is a..dangerous fellow... A ‘*pipe fiend’ and gambler, his favorite occupation is ‘stuss’. 1938Amer. Speech XIII. 189 I'm gonna take my gal along, We'll kick around the gong. She'll sing that pipe-fiend song.
c1450Holland Howlat 642 The Pitill and the *Pype Gled cryand pewewe.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Pipe-grab, a tool to let down into a well-pipe to enable it to be hoisted to the surface.
1828Blackw. Mag. Sept. 276 The Shooter..begins with his pop or *pipe-gun, formed of the last year's growth of the branch of a plane-tree. 1973Trinidad Guardian 1 Feb. 11/4 He was found guilty on a four-count indictment accusing him of being in possession of a revolver, Molotov cocktails, a pipe-gun and several rounds of ammunition. 1973Guardian 27 Mar. 3/1 The Naxalites..had..country-forged pipe guns which heated and split after a few rounds.
1855Longfellow Hiaw. i. 18 From the red stone of the quarry With his hand he broke a fragment, Moulded it into a *pipe-head. 1905[see pipe-ear].
1852Seidel Organ 56 These small pipes go first through the holes of the *pipe-holders.
1805P. Wakefield Dom. Recreat. vi. (1806) 93 Animalcules..living in small tubes, or cases of sandy matter, united like pieces of coral; from which..they are called the *pipe insect.
1540MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for a *pype key ijd.
1860Sala Baddington Peerage II. xix. 23 Half-smoked *pipe-lees.
1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxi, Mr. George..twists it [the document] up for a *pipe⁓light.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Pipe-loop (Harness), a long narrow loop for holding the end of a buckled strap.
1787J. Farley Art Cookery (ed. 4) 157 Take half a pound of small *pipe-maccaroni.
1893W. Forbes-Mitchell Remin. Gt. Mutiny 48 Sir Colin complimented the *pipe-major on the way he had played. 1896Crockett Cleg Kelly (ed. 2) 97 Cleg marched along like the pipe-major in the Black Watch.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 616/22 Tibiarius, a *Pypemaker. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 10 Pype makers, wode mongers, and orgyn makers. 1765Spry in Phil. Trans. LV. 84 Had I..rendered the tube flexible..and turned it on a stick of pipe-maker's clay. 1901Scott. N. & Q. May 170/2 He commissioned a well-known Glasgow pipe-maker to furnish him with a set of bag-pipes.
1852Seidel Organ 75 The pipes..are composed of wood, pewter, or what is called *pipe-metal.
1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metamorph. Wks. (Rtldg.) 623/2 Call Cheeks upon the bagpipe, and Tom Tickle-foot with his tabor. Clod, will you gather the *pipe⁓money?
1919J. C. Squire Birds 11 *Pipe-necked and stationary and silhouetted, Cormorants stood in a wise, black, equal row.
1592Warner Alb. Eng. xxxvi, His apish toyes, His Pedlarie, and *pype-notes. 1854Bushnan in Circ. Sc. (c 1865) I. 293/1 When the male [bird] is alone, its most significant note is the pipe-note witt.
1609Dekker Gvlls Horne-bk. 18 Till your *pipe offices smoke with your pitifully-stinking girds shot out against me. 1647Haward Crown Rev. 5 Clerke in the Pipe office. 1738Birch Life Milton in M.'s Wks. (1738) I. 77 One Mr. Francis Boyton, a Norfolk Gentleman, who had a place in the Pipe-Office.
1877Coursing Calendar Autumn 1876 238 Dulcimer and Jewess separated on two hares, and both got a good *pipe-opener. 1879Daily News 7 Apr. 3/1 The crew..indulge in a short paddle to the point and back by way of a ‘pipe-opener’. 1898Cycling 89 He should ride for half an hour, in sufficient clothing, simply as a pipe-opener. a1936Kipling Something of Myself (1937) vii. 187 That tale may have served as a pipe-opener, but one could not see its wood for its trees, so I threw it away. 1962Times 26 Apr. 13/4 This is the blessed time of year when cricket scores begin to creep..into the sporting pages of the news⁓papers... Such trial matches are in the nature of pipe-openers, elaborations of practice at the nets. 1971D. Francis Bonecrack xv. 189 ‘I could give Archangel his pipe-opener{ddd}’ ‘All right, then,’ I said, and he took Archangel out..and they cantered a brisk four furlongs. 1974Times 18 Sept. 12/6 British pair thrashed in pipe-opener to Wills Open... The match was a curtain-raiser to the Wills Open Tournament. 1977Times 9 June 8/2 There was a pipe-opener to the conference..when Prince Charles..went to Marlborough House to unveil a painting of his mother.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., *Pipe-ore, iron ore (limonite) in vertical pillars, sometimes of conical, sometimes of hour-glass form, imbedded in clay.
1895–6Cal. Univ. Nebraska 214 The..course..in instrumental music, either piano-forte, *pipe-organ or violin.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Pipe Oven, a hot blast oven in which the air passes through pipes exposed to the heat of the furnace. In contra-distinction to a fire-brick oven.
1855E. J. Hopkins Organ 39 The *pipe-racks. The greater number of the pipes stand on the upperboards..a framework, therefore, is used to keep them in an erect position. 1892W. B. Scott Autobiog. Notes I. 162 A pipe⁓rack like those in the artist clubs in Munich. 1948Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat Petroleum Co) (ed 3) The broken-out stand is then lowered to its position on the pipe rack. 1976W. D. Baasel Prelim. Chem. Engin. Plant Design vi. 148 Nothing should be located under pipe racks, since if leaks occur they may damage equipment. 1978G. Greene Human Factor VI. i. 301 He looked at the row of pipes in the pipe rack with concentration.
a1780Shirrefs Poems (1790) 213 John o' *pipe-skill wasna scant.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Pipe Stand, a frame to support radiator pipes. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 270 From his pipe-stand he reached down a long Hungarian pipe and a long Turkish chibouc.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Pipe Stay, a device to hold a pipe in place; or to hang a pipe.
1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xiv. 307 With the stroke of a whip or a *pipe-stick.
1931G. Egloff in A. Rogers Industr. Chem. (ed. 5) II. 861 Modern practice used the *pipe still consisting essentially of a coil of pipe placed in a furnace through which oil is passed. 1959Times Rev. Industry Aug. 97/2 The pipestill works on much the same principle as a water tube boiler. 1970W. G. Roberts Quest for Oil viii. 87 The crude oil must be heated before it gets to the column, and the heater used is known as a ‘pipestill’.
1818Blackw. Mag. IV. 321 Not so thick as your Highness' *pipe-stopper. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son I. 244 Using his probe with the same sort of indifference as a man does a pipe⁓stopper.
1904N.Y. Times 16 Oct. iii. 6 The police are now forced to take what appears on its face to be the veriest *pipe story and run it down.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Pipe-tongs. 1899Academy 11 Feb. 183/1 A pair of pipe-tongs wherewith the New Englander lifted an outlying coal to light his pipe.
1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) 281 The *pipe vein is a variety of the flat vein having the sides closed or twitched in, so as to form a tube or cavity of irregular shape. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 832 The pipe vein resembles in many respects a huge irregular cavern.
1857Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 26 The Aristolochia or *Pipe-Vine. 1866Treas. Bot. 91 A[ristolochia] Sipho, a native of the Alleghany mountains..has..received the name of Pipe-vine, from a resemblance in the form of the flowers to that of a tobacco-pipe.
1745Swift Directions to Servants ii. 41 Boil your Meat constantly in Pump Water, because you must sometimes want River or *Pipe Water. 1908Westm. Gaz. 24 Oct. 17/2, I will not live to see pipe-water squirting down sham rocks under a sham bridge.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 48 *Pipe-worms and other little animals fix their habitation to the oyster's sides.
Add:[II.] [3.] [b.] (b) to lay pipe: of a man, to have sexual intercourse; to copulate, esp. vigorously. U.S. coarse slang.
1967E. Liebow in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out (1972) 405 Descriptive phrases such as ‘I really laid some pipe last night’ tend to replace the more specific, denotative labels for intercourse. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 80 That chick... I wouldn't mind laying some pipe in her pants. 1971A. Hailey Wheels xiv. 207 It made him horny just to look at her, and he laid pipe, sometimes three times a night..when May Lou really went to work.
[IV.] [11.] [b.] pipe band, a band consisting of pipers with drummers and a drum-major.
1901W. L. Manson Highland Bagpipe 137 In the British army there are twenty-two *pipe bands. 1949‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xxvi. 237 The pipe band..faded..into the distance. 1987Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 13/7 The Kachin, who compromised a large part of Orde Wingate's Chindits, have their own pipe band and go into battle against the Burmese playing among other things ‘Scotland the Brave’.
▪ II. pipe, n.2
[a. OF., F. pipe, a cask for wine, etc., also a measure. So Sp., Pg. pipa, It. pippa. In origin, the same word as pipe n.1, in special sense of a cylindrical vessel.]
1. A large cask, of more or less definite capacity (see 2), used for wine, and formerly also for other liquids and provisions (as eggs, meat, fish, etc.), or other goods. Obs. or merged in 2.
1392–3Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 156 Pro iij doliis j pipe. 1411Nottingham Rec. II. 86, j tubbe et j barell vj d; dimidium pype, vij d.; j parvum fatte iij d. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xvii. 49 Bridgis..made vpon pipes bounden togider and wel teyed with ropys. c1559R. Hall Fisher xxii. (1655) 186 His Library, which they found so replenished..with..Books,..with which they trussed up, and filled 32. great fats, or pipes. 1571Digges Pantom. iii. xi. R iv, Sundrie kindes of wine vessels, as the tunne, the pipe, the punshion, hogsheads, buttes, barrels. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof x, The pint, you brought me, was the best That ever came from pipe.
2. Such a cask with its contents (wine, beer, cider, beef, fish, etc.), or as a measure of capacity, equivalent to half a tun, or 2 hogsheads, or 4 barrels, i.e. containing usually 105 imperial gallons (= 126 old wine-gallons), but varying for different commodities, and still for different kinds of wine. Sometimes identified with butt n.2 1.
[1376Rolls of Parlt. II. 328/2 De chescun Pype ou Vessel de tiel Vyn douce.] 1406in E.E. Wills (1882) 13 Y wyt to Iohan Whyte the yongger, and to hys wyfe, a pipe of wyne, pris of xl s. 1439Act 18 Hen. VI, c. 17 Pour ceo qe come toutz les tonels, pipes, tercians & hoggeshedes de Vin Oyle & Mele..doient..conteiner un certein mesure..chescun pipe vjxx, vj galons. [tr. a 1550 Forasmuch as all the Tunnes, Pipes, Tercians, and Hogsheads of Wine, Oyle, and Honie..ought..to conteine a certaine measure..euerie Pipe six score and six gallons.] 1472–3Rolls of Parlt. VI. 37/2, ii pipes of Syder. 1496Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 166 A pipe of salte bieff redie dressed xls. 1526in Dillon Calais & Pale (1892) 81 A pype of redd Herring. 1670R. Coke Disc. Trade 6 The Canary Wines yearly Imported are about 13000 Pipes. 1802Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) s.v. Reus, About 20,000 pipes of brandy are annually exported. 1903Whitaker's Almanack 453 Of wines imported in casks the following are the usual measurements: Pipe of Port or Masdeu = 115 gallons, of Teneriffe = 100 g., of Marsala = 93 g., of Madeira and Cape = 92 g., of Sherry and Tent = 108 g.
3. Comb. pipe-board, pipe-hoop, pipe-stave, a board, hoop, or stave used for making pipes or casks (pipe-board in strict use connoting a certain size or thickness: see quots.); † pipe-merry a., merry from drinking wine (obs.); † pipe-wine, wine drawn directly from the pipe or ‘wood’.
1596Danett tr. Comines (1614) 19 He caried also with him..great store of *pipeboorde, meaning therewith to make a bridge ouer the riuer of Seine. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 303 Pipe Boards, viz. above 5 feet 3 inches in length, and not exceeding 8 feet, and under 8 inches square. 1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 56 Table s.v. Wood.
1510in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 394 Three *pipe hopis for a pennye.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 141 Wyne deliuereth the herte from all care..when a bodye is *pipe merye.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 122 Ships..laden with hoopes, gally⁓oares, *pipe-staues, & other prouisions of the king of Spaine. 1666Lond. Gaz. No. 45/1 Four Vessels laden with Pipe⁓staves from Hamburgh, for the use of the Navy. 1783Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies VII. 438 Ireland, which afforded an advantageous mart for corn, flax, and pipe-staves, has been shut against them [colonists] by an act of parliament.
1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. ii. 90 Host...I will to my honest Knight Falstaffe, and drinke Canarie with him. Ford. I thinke I shall drinke in *Pipe-wine first with him, Ile make him dance. [With play upon the musical pipe and canary the dance.]
▪ III. pipe, v.1|paɪp|
Also 4–6 pype.
[In branch I, OE. pípian to blow the pipe (Napier Contrib. OE. Lexic.), ad. L. pīpāre in late or med. sense ‘to blow a pipe’, f. pīpa in OE. pípe pipe n.1: cf. Du. pijpen, MDu. pîpen, LG., MLG. pîpen, Ger. pfeifen, MHG. pfîfen; also Sw., Norw. pīpa, Da. pibe, to blow the pipe, to whistle. In branch II, ME. pipen, corresponds to OF. piper (12th c., of a mouse, a chicken, etc.) = It. pipare ‘to pipe, to cackle or clucke as a hen, to pule as a hawke’ (Florio):—L. pīpāre (and ? *pīppāre) to peep, cheep, chirp. In the literal sense, this is now expressed by peep v.1, and in a special sense by pip v.2
L. pīpāre, beside pīpiāre, pīpīre (all app. in same sense), was evidently echoic, imitating the voice of chickens and little birds; similar forms could arise independently in any lang. Thus, beside the forms above, MDu., MLG., Du., LG., mod.Ger. have a weak vb. piepen, (pijpen, fleuter, fistulare, tibia canere, piepen als vogels, piper comme les petits poulsins, pipire, Plantijn 1573), It. has pipire ‘to peepe as a chickin’ (Florio), Fr. has pipier, pépier in same sense, Eng. peep v.1, pip v.2 App. the tendency in all the langs. to associate the orig. vb. with the sound of the musical instrument (cf. F. piper in Godef. Compl.) led to the use of forms more directly imitating the weak cheep of the chicken, etc., for the expression of the original L. sense.]
I. To blow or play on a pipe.
1. a. intr. To play on a pipe, to blow a pipe (see pipe n.1 1, 1 d). † Phrase to pipe in or with an ivy-leaf: see ivy-leaf (obs.).
α1000B. M. MS. Tib. A. III lf. 102 (Zeitsch. f. deutsch. Alt. XXXIV. 234) An stan..þæs ansyne is, swilce an man pipiᵹe mid niᵹon pipan & an man hearpiᵹe. c1275,[see piping vbl. n.1 1]. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 92 Mynstralles myȝte pipe. c1420Lydg. Sege Thebes 1791 Lete his brother blowen in an horn..or pypen in a red. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop vi. vii, Whanne I pyped and played of my muse or bag pype ye dayned, ne wold not daunce. 1526Tindale Luke vii. 32 We have pyped vnto you, and ye have nott daunsed. 1586in Neal Hist. Purit. (1732) I. 480 The service of God is grievously abused by piping with organs. 1634Milton Comus 823 The soothest Shepherd that ere pip't on plains. 1765Gray Shakespeare 15 When thou hear'st the organ piping shrill. 1789[see 5]. 1872Besant & Rice Ready-Money Mort. iv, The Arcadian shepherd piped upon the mountain. 1893Stevenson Catriona ii. 21 I'm Hieland born, and when the clan pipes, who but me has to dance?
b. To whistle, as the wind, a man, a bird, etc.: see 5 a, b.
2. a. trans. To play (a tune, music) upon a pipe.
1390Gower Conf. II. 113 With that his Pype on honde he hente, And gan to pipe in his manere Thing which was slepi forto hiere. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. iii. (Percy Soc.) 15 Wyth goodly pypes in their mouthes i-tuned..they pyped a daunce, I-clipped Amour de la hault plesaunce. 1526Tindale 1 Cor. xiv. 7 Except they make a distinccion in the soundes: howe shall it be knowen what is pyped or harped? 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. ix. 8 The lustie shepheard swaynes..did pype and sing her prayses dew. 1789Blake Songs Innoc. Introd. 2 Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk., Royal Poet, (1859) 68 Those witching airs still piped among the wild mountains and lonely glens of Scotland. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiii. 22 On a curved oat the Phrygian deep pipeth a melody. 1898G. Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 11 She piped her sons the frontier march.
b. transf. To bring into some place or condition by playing on a pipe; to lead by the sound of a pipe; to entice or decoy, as wild fowl; also fig. † to pipe up (quot. c 1546), to exalt or worship with pipes, i.e. organ-music (obs.). Freq. with advs. and advb. phrases: esp. Naut., to bring or escort (a person) aboard, etc. to the accompaniment of a pipe; also fig.; to pipe in: to bring in (a person or thing) to the accompaniment of bagpipes.
c1546Joye in Gardiner Declar. Art. Joye 93 They pipe him [God] vp with orgaynes. 1673Dryden Amboyna i. i, We must put on a seeming Kindness,..pipe 'em within the Danger of our Net, and then we'll draw it o'er 'em. 1689T. R. View Govt. Europe 67 A lightness of humour, by the which they are easily piped into a new mode of Government. 1842Browning Pied Piper ad fin., Whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice. 1889Cornh. Mag. Dec. 616 He pipes them homewards, and they trot along..as if they liked the music. 1918Times 21 Sept. 5/1 It was a Punjabi piper who piped the Cossacks in. 1939F. Drake-Carnell It's an Old Scottish Custom ii. facing p. 54 (caption) St. Andrew's Night. Piping in the haggis. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) i. 25 Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan Lalors piped you overborder. 1940Bluejackets' Man. (U.S. Naval Inst.) lix. 783. In the piping of officials alongside and over, the side pipe is lengthened to full breath for officials receiving 8 side boys. 1955Times 1 July 6/3 The Duke was piped on board, welcomed by the master, Captain H. W. Langbein. 1965D. MacLean Queens' Company xx. 175 On the following morning the doughty Henry Morgan himself, accompanied by his bodyguard, all in magnificent period uniform, were ceremoniously piped on board. 1966Listener 20 Oct. 578/2 Noah pipes aboard an earnest procession of elephants, camels, and assorted fowl. 1968Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 15 Dec. 2/3 The plum pudding, ablaze, was piped in and paraded around the dining room by the chef before being served. 1973Stornoway Gaz. 3 Mar. 1/1 The platform party was piped in by two members of the Lewis Pipe Band. 1976Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 131/2 The call..is retained for ceremonial occasions when piping dignitaries and foreign naval officers aboard. 1977‘J. le Carré’ Hon. Schoolboy xiii. 292 He looked into the ceiling mirror and caught the glitter of an electric-blue suit and a full head of black hair well greased; and between the two, a foreshortened chubby Chinese face set on a pair of powerful shoulders, and two curled hands held out in a fighter's greeting while Lizzie piped him aboard.
c. to pipe the side (Naut.): to sound the ‘side’, a salute given to certain officers and dignitaries when boarding or leaving a ship.
1896L. Delbos Naut. Terms (ed. 3) 103 To pipe the side, faire les honneurs du sifflet. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl. s.v., When the commanding officer of a naval vessel, or the president or vice-president of the country, or other dignitaries, or superior officers of foreign governments, or crowned heads, or members of royal families, or of the nobility, are received on board, or are leaving a man-of-war,..the boatswain, or one of his mates, winds (blows) his call (silver whistle)... This ceremony is..known as piping the side. 1938C. S. Forester Flying Colours 237 They piped the side for him in the Victory, as Admiralty regulations laid down.
3. a. Naut. To summon, as a boatswain the crew, to some duty, or to a meal, by sounding the pipe or whistle (trans., and intr.). Also transf. to pipe away, pipe down, to dismiss by sounding the pipe.
1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 102 Whensoever the Boatswain pipes to Dinner. 1789G. Keate Pelew Isl. 92 The boatswain..piped all out to their separate departments. 1790C. Dibdin Song, ‘Tom Bowling’ v, When He who all commands Shall give..The word to pipe all hands. 1809Malkin Gil Blas v. ii. ⁋2 All hands were piped to make the necessary arrangements. 1833Marryat P. Simple viii, I..was ready at the gangway a quarter of an hour before the men were piped away. Ibid. xi, The hammocks were piped down..and the ship was once more quiet. 1837― Dog-fiend x, Jemmy piped the hands up. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Pipe down! The order to dismiss the men from the deck when a duty has been performed on board ship. 1884H. Collingwood Under Meteor Flag 15 The hands had just been piped to breakfast.
b. to pipe down, in more general use: to stop talking, be quiet, become less vociferous; freq. as a command, = shut up! Also occas. trans., to cause (someone) to be silent. colloq.
1900Dialect Notes II. 49 Pipe down, to stop talking. 1926Stallings & Anderson What Prige Glory? i. i, in Three Amer. Plays 24 Pipe down. Ibid. iii. 76 He tried to pipe me down. 1932S. O'Faoláin Midsummer Night Madness 227 ‘Shut up, you,’ said the Tan angrily, and the little fellow piped down miserably. 1938N. Marsh Artists in Crime vi. 76 ‘Hatchett,’ said Troy. ‘Pipe down.’ 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. v. 105 Groans of protest rose from the other cells where various tramps and pick-pockets were trying to get some sleep: ‘Aw, pipe down!’ 1951M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael vi. ii. 293 He didn't disagree; if he had, I'd have piped down. Ibid. 294, I won't pipe down. I'll go to Charles. I'll spill all the beans. 1974Times 19 Jan. 12/1 The more immoderate members of his party..may pipe down.
II. To utter a shrill and, originally, weak sound.
†4. intr. To utter a shrill and weak sound; to cheep, squeak, peep. Said of chickens, small birds, mice, etc., and contemptuously of persons. Obs., and replaced by peep v.1
a1250Owl & Night. 503 Ne myht þu leng a word iqueþe Ac [þu] pipest al so doþ a mose. c1350Nominale Gall.-Angl. 759 (E.E.T.S.) Rayne gailie, Frogge pipith. c1440Promp. Parv. 401/2 Pypyn, or ȝyppe, as henn byrdys,..pipio, pipulo. c1460Towneley Myst. ii. 298 Whi, who is that hob ouer the wall? we! who was that that piped so small? Ibid. xiii. 195 Who is that pypys so poore? 1481Caxton Reynard x. (Arb.) 21 Ye shal catche myes by grete heepis, herke how they pype [orig. pipen]. 1483Cath. Angl. 281/1 To Pipe as a byrde, pipiare.
5. The following appear to have begun as varieties of sense 4, but to have been influenced by sense 1, or by association with pipe n.1, so as to express a louder shrill sound.
a. To whistle: said of the wind (in later use, sometimes, to howl), of the human voice, a marmot; also to hum or buzz shrilly as a winged insect; to whistle or whizz as a bullet.
1513Douglas æneis iii. viii. 48 At our desyre, The sesonable air pipis vp fair and schire. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 162 His bigge manly voice, Turning againe toward childish trebble pipes, And whistles in his sound. 1632Milton Penseroso 126 While rocking Winds are Piping loud. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xxiii, The favouring breeze, when loud It pipes upon the galley's shroud. 1824Longfellow Woods in Winter vi, Gathering winds..Amid the vocal reeds pipe loud. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 22 The frightened marmots piped incessantly from the rocks. 1880Daily Tel. 7 Sept., With the anchor over the bow, and the wind piping through the rigging. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 136 We heard the bullets piping all around them.
b. To whistle or sing as a bird.
a1591H. Smith in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxxvi. 1 Like a bird that is taught to pipe. a1771Gray Birds 1 There pipes the woodlark. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall I. vi. 51 The thrush piped from the hawthorn. 1828[see piping vbl. n.1 1]. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 61 O throstle softly piping High on the topmost bough.
c. To speak or talk loudly and shrilly.
1784R. Bage Barham Downs II. 268 My mother was the best scold in all Ballyshannon, and if she did not pipe it away two or three hours every day, she [etc.]. 1792C. Smith Desmond III. 177 He goes piping about, and talks of unequal representation, and the weight of taxes. 1866C. Rossetti Prince's Progr., etc. 3 Voices piped on the gale.
d. To weep, to cry. colloq. or slang. (Cf. to pipe one's eye, 7.)
1797M. Robinson Walsingham III. 310 She has been piping all the way down to Bath. a1814Dibdin Song, True Courage i, 'Tis nonsense for trifles, I own, to be piping. 1824Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 283 The organ..is the finest thing I ever heard. The three or four first chords made me pipe. 1901Farmer Slang, Pipe..(1) to talk; and (2) to cry; also to pipe up, to take a pipe, to tune one's pipes, and to pipe one's eye.
6. trans. To utter
a. in a peeping or cheeping voice, as a mouse;
b. in a loud shrill or clear voice, as a song-bird, a singer, or speaker.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 406 Thanne piped pees of poysye a note, Clarior est solito post maxima nebula phebus. c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 277 How every..noyse, or sovne.. Thogh hyt were piped of a mouse Mote nede come to Fames house. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 223 One pipes out his woordes so small, through defaulte of his wynde pipe, that ye would thinke he whisteled. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 208 Sa sall they pipe a merie fit. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 97 The same old Song..which they have pip'd to each other these many Years. 1750Gray Elegy 103 Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song. 1840Thackeray Catherine i, The boys piped out an hurrah. 1842Tennyson Sir Launcelot & Q. Guinevere ii, Sometimes the linnet piped his song. 1861Thackeray Four Georges i, Italian soprani piped their Latin rhymes in place of the hymns. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxi. 153 Love can angrily pipe adieu.
7. to pipe one's eye or eyes (orig. Naut. slang): to shed tears, weep, cry.
1789C. Dibdin Song, Poor Jack iii, What argufies sniv'ling and piping your eye? a1814Sailor's Ret. ii. i. in New Brit. Theatre II. 337 Lucy and he must have piped their eyes enough by this time. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxii, He was very frail and tearful..his own peculiar mission was to pipe his eye. 1897‘Ouida’ Massarenes xxxii, ‘One don't pipe one's eye when one comes into a fortun'’, said the wheelwright.
III. 8. Pugilistic slang. (intr.) To breathe hard, pant from violent exertion or exhaustion.
1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 72 Painter at length fell from weakness, and both were at this time piping. 1826Ibid. XVII. 283 Bob was piping a little, but said ‘nothing was the matter’. 1827De Quincey Murder Wks. 1862 IV. 33 The baker came up piping.
IV.
9. pipe up. a. trans. To blow up, commence to play or sing, strike up. Also absol.
c1425Cast. Persev. 457 (Stage direct.) Pipe vp music. c1570Marr. Wit & Science iv. iii. in Hazl. Dodsley II. 372 Pipe us up a galliard, minstrel. 1575Gamm. Gurton ii. v. ibid. III. 211 In the meantime fellows, pipe up your fiddles. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. i. iii, Once he piped up to a different air, a kind of country love-song.
b. intr. To raise the voice, speak up in a piping voice; to rise or increase, as the wind.
1889‘Mark Twain’ Yankee at Crt. K. Arthur (ed. Tauchn.) I. 167 As the guard laid a hand upon me, she piped up with the tranquilest confidence. 1901Daily Chron. 14 May 8/7 The wind had piped up to half a gale overnight.
▪ IV. pipe, v.2|paɪp|
[f. pipe n.1, senses 3–5.]
I.
†1. trans. ? To draw through pipes or taps; to drink. Obs. rare.
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 45 In lyttl more then a three dayz space, 72 tunn of Ale & Beer waz pyept vp quite.
†2. intr. ? To flow or be conveyed as through a pipe. Obs.
1656R. Short Drinking Water Pref. A ij b, We see so many kickshaws in all sciences..and new Paradoxes in Physick, piping out of the Novelists Braines.
II.
3. a. trans. Gardening. To propagate (pinks, etc.) by cuttings or slips taken off at a joint of the stem; see quot. 1856, and piping vbl. n.2 2.
1788H. Walpole Let. to Mrs. H. More 4 July, No botanist am I; nor wished to learn from you..that piping has a new signification. I had rather that you handled an oaten pipe than a carnation one. 1856Delamer Fl. Gard. (1861) 78 Carnations may..be increased, after blooming, by ‘pipings’, i.e. the ends of the shoots broken off at a joint..so as to form a short pipe-like cutting... The pipings then are made to strike root... Pinks are more generally piped, Carnations layered. 1858Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 194/1 Carnations..when all the shoots that are long enough are layered, those which are too short may be piped like pinks.
b. intr. Of certain herbs: To develop a tubular stem, to become pipy.
1855Delamer Kitch. Gard. 78 It [celery] has a greater tendency to ‘pipe’, or run up to seed. 1903Eng. Dial. Dict., Pipe..Of onions: to run to seed-stalks but not to seed. (Bedfordsh.)
III. 4. a. Dressmaking, etc. To trim or ornament with piping (see piping vbl. n.2 4).
1841Lever C. O'Malley lxviii, Her blue satin piped with scarlet. 1884Girl's Own Paper 29 Nov. 138/2 The edges of the newest bodices are now piped, as they were some time ago. 1906Myra's Jrnl. 1 Apr. 10/3 If satin is used the seams should be piped instead of being lapped.
b. Confectionery and Cookery. To ornament (a cake, etc.), or to form (an ornamental design) with sugar piping (see piping vbl. n.2 8); to arrange (icing, cream, mashed potato, etc.) in decorative cord-like lines or twists. Also intr.
1883–4[see piping vbl. n.2 8]. 1884[see piped ppl. a.1 2]. 1892A. B. Marshall Larger Cookery Bk. 317 Fill them by means of a forcing bag and pipe with the Cheese custard..or whipped cream. 1894Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 4/3 The lower portion of the cake contains panels delicately piped in sugar. 1901Daily Chron. 4 Dec. 9/2 Wanted a man..to ice and pipe Christmas cakes. 1929E. J. Kollist French Pastry, Confectionery & Sweets vi. 116 Cover with royal icing... When dry, pipe flowers and leaves on the basket. 1948Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 582 Pipe on chocolate butter icing and decorate with angelica. Ibid. 587 Sandwich the cakes together with the filling, spreading some on the top also. If liked, it can be piped on top with a writing pipe. 1965Listener 30 Sept. 511/3 Allow this to sink in a little before piping the whipped cream all over the top. 1976G. Moffat Short Time to Live ii. 17 ‘I can't come,’ she called... ‘I'm piping.’.. She had been piping cream round a flan.
IV.
5. trans. To furnish or supply with pipes; to lay (a place) with pipes (for gas, water, etc.).
1884Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. Jan., A special town meeting..to hear the report of the committee with reference to piping the town. The committee will recommend that the town take its water of Lynn. 1902Greenough & Kittredge Words 192 Any noun can become a verb... Thus we have to cudgel, to powder, to oil, to pipe (for gas), to wall in.
6. a. To convey (water, gas, oil, etc.) through or by means of pipes. Also transf. Cf. light pipe s.v. light n. 16.
1889Whitby Gaz. 27 Sept. 3/2 A large Philadelphia syndicate has secured the gas rights in Indiana..and will pipe the natural gas to Chicago. 1901Daily Chron. 31 May 7/1 Fuel oil from the wells in Beaumont can be piped to Port Arthur. 1949H. C. Weston Sight, Light & Efficiency v. 183 Some of the doctor's work-objects are parts of the body which cannot be adequately illuminated by general lighting, hence, he sometimes ‘pipes’ light to these parts by means of transparent internally-reflecting plastic devices which are attached to small hand-lamps. 1952Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 62/1 The well-known plastic material perspex possesses the unusual property of ‘piping’ light rather than diffusing it. This property is displayed when the interior of perspex tubing is illuminated. 1968Bean & Simons Lighting Fittings v. 167 Light can be piped along a rod, block, or sheet of transparent medium such as glass or acrylic plastic. 1971P. Tooley High Polymers ii. 60 Another interesting property [of polymethyl methacrylate] is its ability to ‘pipe’ light from one place to another as a result of a high degree of internal reflection. This is used surgically to illuminate internal hollow organs such as the stomach.
b. To transmit (music or speech) over a wire or cable.
1937[implied in piped ppl. a.1 3 b]. 1939Wireless World 16 Mar. 259/3 Broadcast programmes or announcements by the pilot can be ‘piped’ to the passengers. 1956Time 9 Jan. 20/2 It was his wintertime pre-breakfast habit to cut figure eights on the ice of Webster Lake..to the music of Mozart and Chopin, piped through an amplifying system he had rigged up. 1959Observer 6 Dec. 4/5 Programmes of music, talks and plays were ‘piped’ to individual seats, each passenger having lightweight earphones with volume control. 1967N.Y. Herald Tribune Internat. 11–12 Feb. 3/3 The astronaut told the workers in a talk piped over a public address system to plants here and in Oak Creek. 1977Sunday Times 6 Mar. 8/6 Powell's daily conference is piped into a dozen White House offices.
7. Mining. To direct a jet of water from a pipe upon (gravel, etc.): see hydraulic a. 1; to supply with water for this purpose.
1882Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S. 629 The length of the season..will depend upon the water available,..some of the smaller claims are not piped more than one hundred to one hundred and fifty days per year. At the large mines piping goes on night and day.
8. intr. To smoke a pipe. N. Amer. colloq. See also piping vbl. n.2 1.
1846T. L. McKenney Mem. I. iii. 71 These hardy adventurous fellows never rose from their paddles, nor stopped except to ‘pipe’. 1863W. B. Cheadle Jrnl. Trip across Canada (1931) 270 Dr. Benson..assured us we were going wrong. We therefore lunched & piped.
9. trans. and intr. To see, notice, look (at), watch; to follow or observe (someone), esp. stealthily. Also with off. slang and dial.
Perhaps a different word.
1846Swell's Night Guide 43 You may pipe the crib by seeing a board whereon is inscribed the name of the piano faker. 1848Ladies' Repository VIII. 316/2 Pipe, to watch; reconnoitre. 1864Hotten Slang Dict. 202 Pipe, to follow or dog a person. Term used by detectives. 1869Galaxy VIII. 349 His ‘pal’..has meantime been engaged in an operation which he styles ‘piping off the cop’, by which he means that he has been watching the movements of the policeman. 1877Sessions Papers 25 Oct. 631 Druscovich..said ‘I know I am being piped off’—that in our language means being followed or watched—it would imply that another detective was following him. 1888S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 176 Pipe, to take notice of. ‘Pipe his kuss’, i.e., take notice of his mouth. A detective is said to pipe round a public-house when in search of a culprit. 1898A. M. Binstead Pink 'Un & Pelican iv. 87 His mission up there on the roof was to exclude—Anglice, sling off—any who sought to ‘pipe off’ the contest through the skylight aforesaid. 1898F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace & War 3 Sagasta pipes him out iv th' corner iv his eye. 1906‘H. McHugh’ Skiddoo! 67 I'm going to pass you out a talk he handed me a few evenings ago on that subject. Pipe! 1915Wodehouse Psmith, Journalist ii. 10 Pipe de leather collar she's wearing. 1924E. O'Neill Welded ii. ii. 141 Remember kissing me on the corner with the whole mob pipin' us off? 1926Flynn's 16 Jan. 640/2 We found another rattler and a few days later I piped a beaut of a jug and a jay burg. 1943F. Sargeson in Penguin New Writing XVII. 78 We'd stand in shop doorways and Terry'd pipe off everyone that went past. 1950R. Chandler Let. 18 May in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 78 ‘Piped’ does not mean ‘found’ but saw or spotted (with the eyes). 1974H. J. Parker View from Boys iii. 77 During the daytime wandering around the area, ‘pipe-ing’, looking over a car, became a regular practice.
▪ V. pipe, v.3
[f. pipe n.2]
trans. To put (liquor, etc.) in a pipe or cask.
1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 185 Reschard Felaw hathe..serten befe serten bere and serten flower pyped. 1513–14Act 5 Hen. VIII, c. 16 Thoffice of packyng of Wolleyn clothes..and of oder merchaundises to be pakked tonned piped barellid or otherwise enclosid. 1766Entick London (1776) I. 410. |