1732 E. Strother Prælectiones Pharmaco-mathicæ I. i. 99 Fix'd Salts do become Volatile by an addition of Pipe Clay.

1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy 70 Our porcelain seems to be a partial vitrification of levigated flint and fine pipe clay.

1806 Gazetteer Scotl. (ed. 2) at Kilmadan Limestone is abundant, and there is a great quantity of what is called pipe-clay.

1851 G. Borrow Lavengro I. v. 62 He wore..smallclothes of leather, which had probably once belonged to a soldier, but with which pipe-clay did not seem to have come in contact for many a year.

1858 W. Johnson Ionica 49 Bright gleams the pipe-clay below the red breast, And in slate-coloured trowsers the line look their best.

1932 Mankind Aug. 104 For white outlined figures pipeclay was employed.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 80 He could have also ‘lost all his grass’, not that our pipeclay had any grass on it.

1982 B. Spencer Aboriginal Photographs 54 She adds parrot and cockatoo feathers to her hair and covers herself with white pipe-clay to make her more conspicuous to her husband's spirit.

1835 Westm. Rev. July 6 Not altogether perhaps what may be called ‘in pipe-clay order’.

1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 299 Hampered by conditions largely partaking of red tape and pipeclay.

1928 Times 20 July 15/6 The lack of military finish, of polish and pipe-clay, often..associated with the French Tirailleurs Sénégalais.

1860 Harper's Mag. June 129/1 Lord John is stiff and paste-boardy, a pipe-clayey artilleryman.

1890 ‘Lyth’ Golden South 167 His mate, very gruff and pipe-clayey.

1859 All Year Round 17 Dec. 183 They are too soldier-like, too pipe-clayish.

1806 J. Davis Post-Captain xviii. 105 The midshipmen had pipe-clayed the weekly accounts to the collars.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. ii. 20 They [sc. midshipmen] pipe-clays their weekly accounts, and walks up and down with their hands in their pockets.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xvii. 162 I embraced every opportunity of knowing and befriending the midshipmen... You..probably would not understand allusions to their pipeclaying their weekly accounts.

a1839 J. Smith Mem., Lett. & Comic Misc. (1840) I. 344 But who can depict half the sorrows he felt When he dyed his mustachios and pipe-clayed his belt?

1852 J. Morgan Life & Adventures W. Buckley 43 They all pipe-clayed themselves, and had another corrobberree.

1896 Navy & Army Illustr. 30 Oct. 230/1 The raw material is collected, teased, straightened, toughened, pipe-clayed, sun-baked, and salt-cured into that holy terror of yelping small republics—a British Red Marine.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 24 Admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight.

1966 L. Deighton Billion-dollar Brain v. xv. 145 Do you think I should pipeclay my alligator shoes?

1998 P. O'Brian Hundred Days iv. 94 His other ranks spent their free time cleaning their weapons, polishing, brushing and pipeclaying their equipment.