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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pipe \Pipe\, n. [AS. p[imac]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. {Peep}, {Pibroch}, {Fife}.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. [1913 Webster] 4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. [1913 Webster] 5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. [1913 Webster] The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pipe \Pipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piping}.] 1. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. [1913 Webster] A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. [1913 Webster] As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft. --Marryat. [1913 Webster] 3. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pipe \Pipe\, v. i. 1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. [1913 Webster] We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced. --Matt. xi. 17. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. [1913 Webster] 3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. "Oft in the piping shrouds." --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 4. (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: pipe n 1: a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco [syn: {pipe}, {tobacco pipe}] 2: a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. [syn: {pipe}, {pipage}, {piping}] 3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn: {pipe}, {tube}] 4: a tubular wind instrument 5: the flues and stops on a pipe organ [syn: {organ pipe}, {pipe}, {pipework}] v 1: utter a shrill cry [syn: {shriek}, {shrill}, {pipe up}, {pipe}] 2: transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert" 3: play on a pipe; "pipe a tune" 4: trim with piping; "pipe the skirt" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: pipe n. [common] Idiomatically, one's connection to the Internet; in context, the expansion ?bit pipe? is understood. A ?fat pipe? is a line with T1 or higher capacity. A person with a 28.8 modem might be heard to complain ?I need a bigger pipe?. From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: pipe /pip/ pipe