pipe
a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,802 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,052 times across 175,173 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco also: tobacco pipe
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. also: pipage, piping
- a hollow cylindrical shape also: tube
- a tubular wind instrument
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ also: organ pipe, pipework
verb
- utter a shrill cry also: shriek, shrill, pipe up
- transport by pipeline pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert
- play on a pipe pipe a tune
pipe in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He struck a match and lit his pipe.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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He gave up his pipe, and smoked only cigars.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He was stopping to light his pipe, when they reached him.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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In this condition he remained until the pipe fell from his lips and broke in fragments on the floor.
Snowflakes and Sunbeams · R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne · Chapter 1