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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pipe \Pipe\, n. [AS. p[imac]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire,
to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. {Peep}, {Pibroch},
{Fife}.]
1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes
of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces
musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an
organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." --Milton.
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Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.
--Shak.
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2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware,
or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water,
steam, gas, etc.
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3. A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking
tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
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4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the
windpipe, or one of its divisions.
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5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak.
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6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
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The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.
--Tennyson.
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7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
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8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
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9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise
called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the
accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put
together like a pipe. --Mozley & W.
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10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to
their duties; also, the sound of it.
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11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L.
pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually
containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the
quantity which it contains.
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{Pipe fitter}, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes,
as to an engine or a building.
{Pipe fitting}, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve,
etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory
to a pipe.
{Pipe office}, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer,
in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown
lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.]
{Pipe tree} (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so
called because their were formerly used to make pipe
stems; -- called also {pipe privet}.
{Pipe wrench}, or {Pipe tongs}, a jawed tool for gripping a
pipe, in turning or holding it.
{To smoke the pipe of peace}, to smoke from the same pipe in
token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace,
-- a custom of the American Indians.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pipe \Pipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Piping}.]
1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife,
etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
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A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. --W.
Irving.
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2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's
whistle.
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As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.
--Marryat.
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3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or
a building.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pipe \Pipe\, v. i.
1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind
instrument of music.
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We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.
--Matt. xi.
17.
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2. (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals
on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
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3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to
whistle. "Oft in the piping shrouds." --Wordsworth.
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4. (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying;
-- said of an ingot, as of steel.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pipe
n 1: a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking
tobacco [syn: {pipe}, {tobacco pipe}]
2: a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry
water or oil or gas etc. [syn: {pipe}, {pipage}, {piping}]
3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn: {pipe}, {tube}]
4: a tubular wind instrument
5: the flues and stops on a pipe organ [syn: {organ pipe},
{pipe}, {pipework}]
v 1: utter a shrill cry [syn: {shriek}, {shrill}, {pipe up},
{pipe}]
2: transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the
desert"
3: play on a pipe; "pipe a tune"
4: trim with piping; "pipe the skirt"
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
pipe
n.
[common] Idiomatically, one's connection to the Internet; in context, the
expansion ?bit pipe? is understood. A ?fat pipe? is a line with T1 or
higher capacity. A person with a 28.8 modem might be heard to complain ?I
need a bigger pipe?.
From French-English Freedict dictionary [fd-fra-eng]:
pipe [pip]
pipe
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