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   Pipe , n. [AS. pīpe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin.  Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife.]
   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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   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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   A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
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   A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
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   The key or sound of the voice. [R.]
   Shak.
   
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   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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   pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
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   (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
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   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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   (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
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   [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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   Pipe, v. i.
   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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   (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
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   To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. “Oft in the piping shrouds.”  
   Wordsworth.
   
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   (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
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   Pipe , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Piping.]
   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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   (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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   To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
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