单词 | pipe-stapple |
释义 | pipe-stapplen. 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. ΘΚΠ 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]. ΚΠ 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). < n.a1732 |
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