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单词 pipe-stapple
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pipe-stapplen.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪpstap(ə)l/, /ˈpʌɪpstɒp(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌstæp(ə)l/, /ˈpaɪpˌstɑp(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈpʌipstap(ə)l/, /ˈpʌipstɔp(ə)l/, Irish English /ˈpaɪpstæp(ə)l/, /ˈpaɪpstɑp(ə)l/
Forms: 1700s (1800s Scottish) pipe-staple, 1700s– pipe-stopple, 1800s– pipe-stapple, 1800s– pipe-stoppel (English regional (northern)), 1900s– pipe-stoople (Irish English (northern)).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pipe n.1, stopple n.2
Etymology: < pipe n.1 + stopple n.2 (see forms at that entry).
Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern)
1. A pipestem. Also in extended use. Now rare.In quot. a1732: a (broken) stem of a pipe.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > stem of pipe
steal1672
stopple1681
pipe shank1688
shank1688
pipe-stapplea1732
pipestema1734
pipe-stick1833
shaft1841
a1732 T. Boston Mem. (1899) 6 He..broke in pieces a part of a tobacco-pipe lying thereon; bidding the devil beat him as small as that pipe-stopple, if there should be ought abated of the sum.
?1760 S. Haliburton Mem. Magopico iv. 13 He imagined at that Instant his Caput transmography’d into an Egg-Shell, and all his Members made of Pipe-stopples.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 175 Pinches or forehammers will never pick upon 't [sc. a tower],..ye might as weel batter at it wi' pipe-stapples.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 237 Not worth the notice of a pipe-stapple.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Pipestoppel, a fragment of the shank of a tobacco-pipe.
1915 Kelso Chron. 10 Dec. 4 Sayin' as plain as a pipe-stapple ‘Oo canna an winna see ye or hear yer aividence.’
1958 Trans. Hawick Arch. Soc. 21 We got dirty blethers at the Killin'-hoose and blew them up wi' pipe-stapples for fitbas [= footballs].
2. The grass crested dogstail, Cynosurus cristatus, having long wiry stalks formerly used as pipe cleaners. Obsolete.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Pipe-stapple... Used as synon. with Windle-strae, for smooth-crested grass, Loth.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Pipe-stapple... Cynosurus cristatus. The stiff stalks are used for cleaning pipes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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