Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.
--Shak.
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.
3. A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking
tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the
windpipe, or one of its divisions.
5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak.
6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.
--Tennyson.
7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
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.
10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to
their duties; also, the sound of it.
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.
{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 {Pipetongs}, 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.
A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. --W.
Irving.
2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's
whistle.
As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.
--Marryat.
3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or
a building.
We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.
--Matt. xi.
17.
2. (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals
on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to
whistle. ``Oft in the piping shrouds.'' --Wordsworth.
4. (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying;
-- said of an ingot, as of steel.