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  • English Word Pipe Definition The key or sound of the voice.
  • English Word Pipe Definition The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
  • English Word Pipe Definition The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
  • English Word Pipe Definition An elongated body or vein of ore.
  • English Word Pipe Definition 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.
  • English Word Pipe Definition A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
  • English Word Pipe Definition A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
  • English Word Pipe Definition To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
  • English Word Pipe Definition To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
  • English Word Pipe Definition To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  • English Word Pipe Definition To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
  • English Word Pipe Definition To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
  • English Word Pipe Definition To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
  • English Word Pipe Definition To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
  • English Word Pipe clay Definition A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.
  • English Word Pipe layer Definition One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.
  • English Word Pipe layer Definition A politician who works in secret; -- in this sense, usually written as one word.
  • English Word Pipe laying Definition The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc.
  • English Word Pipe laying Definition The act or method of making combinations for personal advantage secretly or slyly; -- in this sense, usually written as one word.
  • English Word Pipeclay Definition To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.
  • English Word Pipeclay Definition To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts.
  • English Word Piped Definition of Pipe
  • English Word Piped Definition Formed with a pipe; having pipe or pipes; tubular.
  • English Word Pipefish Definition Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.
  • English Word Pipelayer Definition Alt. of Pipe layer
  • English Word Pipelaying Definition Alt. of Pipe laying
  • English Word Pipemouth Definition Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.
  • English Word Piper Definition See Pepper.
  • English Word Piper Definition One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.
  • English Word Piper Definition A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.