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Pipe
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; - said of an ingot, as of steel.
(2):
(n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, - used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
(5):
(n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
(6):
(n.) The key or sound of the voice.
(7):
(n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
(8):
(n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
(9):
(n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.
(10):
(n.) 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.
(11):
(n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
(12):
(n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
(13):
(v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
(14):
(v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
(15):
(v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
(16):
(v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
(17):
(v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
(18):
(v. t.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pipe'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pipe.html. 1828.
