pipeˈfish noun

A fish (of several species) of the seahorse family, a long thin fish covered with hard plates, the jaws forming a long tube

pipe fitting noun

Any of the wide variety of pipe connecting-pieces used to make turns, junctions, and reductions in piping systems

pipeˈ-key noun

A key with a hollow barrel

pipeˈ-layer noun

1. Someone who lays pipes for water, gas, etc
2. A political wirepuller (old US sl)

pipeˈ-laying noun

pipeless organ noun

A musical instrument, played like an organ, in which sounds, built up from whatever harmonics may be chosen, are produced by a loudspeaker

pipeˈ-light or pipeˈ-lighter noun

A spill for lighting a pipe

pipeˈline noun

1. A long continuous line of piping to carry water from a reservoir, oil from an oilfield, etc
2. A line of piping to carry solid materials
3. Any continuous line of communication, or supply, or of progress and development (figurative)
4. See also in the pipeline below

adjective (computing)

Denoting a processor, program, etc involving parallel processing of instructions which is overlapped to enable streams of instructions to be decoded and executed concurrently

transitive verb

1. To carry by pipeline
2. To carry out using a pipeline process (computing)

pipeˈlining noun

pipe major noun

The chief of a band of bagpipers

Pipe Office noun (historical)

An office in the Court of Exchequer in which the Clerk of the Pipe made out the Pipe Roll

pipe of peace see calumet

pipeˈ-opener noun (informal)

1. A walk or spell of exercise in the fresh air
2. A practice game or trial run

pipe organ noun

A musical organ with pipes

pipe rack noun

A rack for storing tobacco pipes

Pipe Roll noun (historical)

The Great Roll of the Exchequer, containing yearly accounts of sheriffs, etc (possibly from its pipelike form)

pipe snake noun

A tropical burrowing snake

pipeˈ-stem noun

The tube of a tobacco pipe

pipeˈstone noun

A red argillaceous stone used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes

pipeˈ-stoppˈle or pipeˈ-stappˈle noun (Scot)

1. A tobacco pipe stem
2. Anything very thin and brittle-looking

pipeˈ-track noun

The course of a pipe across country

pipeˈ-tree noun (obsolete)

1. The mock orange (white pipe-tree)
2. The lilac (blue pipe-tree)

pipeˈwork noun

1. A vein of ore in the form of a pipe
2. Piping or pipes collectively, eg in an organ

pipeˈwort noun

A rare rush-like water plant (Eriocaulon septangulare) of Ireland and the Hebrides, the only European representative of its family, Eriocaulaceae

pipeˈ-wrench noun

A wrench that grips a pipe when turned one way

piping crow noun

An Australian bird (genus Gymnorhina) called a magpie, really related to the shrikes

piping hare noun

A pika

boatswain's pipe see boatswain's whistle under whistle

drunk as a piper

Very drunk

in the pipeline

1. Waiting to be considered or dealt with
2. In preparation

pay the piper

1. To bear the expense (and so call the tune have control)
2. To have to pay heavily

pipe and tabor

A small recorder, fingered by the left hand, and a small drum beaten with the right, formerly in use in rustic jollities

pipe down

1. To subside into silence
2. To stop talking or be quiet (informal)
3. To dismiss (a ship's company) from muster (the final order of the day)

pipe one's eye, tune one's pipes

To weep

pipe up (informal)

1. To interject, say something
2. To begin to speak

piping hot

(of food, usu when served) very hot, literally so hot as to make a hissing or sizzling noise

put that in your pipe and smoke it! (informal; of some unwelcome home truth, etc)

There! how do you like that?