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pipeman|ˈpaɪpmən|
[f. pipe n.1 + man n.]
1. A man who smokes a pipe.
1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 155 Particular pipemen, and solitary cigarers, no doubt, always existed. 1922Daily Mail 7 Nov. 4 (Advt.), The pipeman's joy. 1974J. Johnston How Many Miles to Babylon? 127 My father's a pipe man. The perfect pipe man. He uses it to protect him from the world..stares into the pipe. 1976Liverpool Echo 22 Nov. 1/3 In 1964, he was voted Pipeman of the Year and his waxwork figure appeared at Madame Tussaud's.
2. A workman who attends to a pipe, e.g. in hydraulic mining.
1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 11 Gravel-miners and pipemen. 1898Century Mag. Feb. 490/2 The lieutenant..tried to pull this unhappy pipe-man with him. |