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单词 pipestone
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pipestonen.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪpstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌstoʊn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pipe n.1, stone n.
Etymology: < pipe n.1 + stone n.
1. A kind of fossil mollusc (not identified: perhaps a tusk shell). Obsolete.
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1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 79 The following figur'd Fossils... Siphunculus, The Syringe, or Greater Pipe-stone.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Syringoides, lapis, the pipe-stone, in natural history, the name of a very beautiful fossile substance.
2. North American. An argillaceous stone suitable for making tobacco pipes; spec. an indurated red clay found esp. in the region of the upper Missouri, used by North American Indians for this purpose. Cf. catlinite n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > suitable for pipes
tobacco-pipe clay1667
tobacco clay1676
pipestone1804
pipeclay1806
catlinite1858
terra alba1871
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for tobacco pipes
tobacco-pipe clay1667
tobacco clay1676
pipeclay1732
pipestone1804
terra alba1871
1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1986) 497 Below the falls on the right a Creek com[e]s in on which the red pipe Stone is percured.
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada ii. 24 The Portage du Grand Calumet,..which name is derived from the pièrre à calumet, or pipe-stone, which here interrupts the river, occasioning a fall of water.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxix. 234 The bowls..are generally made of the red steatite, or ‘pipe-stone’.
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha i. 11 On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry.
1855 Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 3 291 His materials were the..black pipestone of Lake Huron; the..white pipestone procured on St. Joseph Island, and the..red pipestone of Coteau des Prairies.
1869 Amer. Naturalist 2 648 At Sioux Falls..a layer of Pipestone occurs intercalated with the quartzite.
1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) viii. 156 Pipestone (catlinite) is a hard red shale used by the Dakota Indians for making pipes.
1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 143/2 This people..traded for raw materials (pipestone, seashells, metals) all over eastern North America.
1992 Native Peoples Winter 20/2 (caption) Todd Tellinghuisen and Chuck Derby quarry the stone in the nation's only pipestone quarry.
3. Metallurgy. In a smelting furnace: a piece of cast iron (perhaps originally a stone) having a groove through which the tuyère passes. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > tuyere > parts connected with
pipestone1839
tuyere box1861
tuyere-house1861
tuyere-plate1881
tuyere coil1884
tuyere arch1889
1839 A. Ure 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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