| 释义 |
ˈpipe-stone
[f. pipe n.1 + stone.]
1. A hard red clay or soft stone used by the American Indians for tobacco-pipes: = catlinite.
1809A. Henry Trav. 24 The Portage du Grand Calumet,..which name is derived from the pièrre à calumet, or pipe-stone, which here interrupts the river. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. I. xxix. 234 The bowls..are generally made of the red steatite or ‘pipe-stone’. Ibid. II. lv. 206 note, ‘Pipe-stone’..is harder than gypsum and softer than carbonate of lime. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. i. 2 On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry.
2. Lead Manuf. A piece of cast iron (? originally a stone), having a groove through which the tuyère or blast-pipe passes, in a smelting furnace.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 756 The posterior ledge of the sole..supports another piece of cast iron..called pipe-stone, scooped out at its under part..for the passage of the tuyère. |