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pipe¹ noun 1 a tubular conveyance for water, gas, oil, etc. 2 a a little bowl with a hollow stem for smoking tobacco, etc; b a quantity of tobacco smoked in one of these. 3 a wind instrument consisting of a simple wooden or metal tube. 4 (the pipes) the bagpipes. 5 any of the vertical metal tubes through which sound is produced on an organ. 6 a boatswain's whistle. 7 a pipe-like vent forming part of a volcano. 8 a cylindrical quantity of ore, etc. 9 old use or in compounds any of the air passages in an animal's body • the windpipe. verb (piped, piping) 1 to convey (gas, water, oil, etc) through pipes. 2 tr & intr to play on a pipe or the pipes • piped the same tune all evening. 3 (also pipe someone or something in) to welcome or convey with music from a pipe or the bagpipes • piped in the haggis. 4 tr & intr said of a child: to speak or say in a small shrill voice. 5 intrans to sing shrilly as a bird does. 6 a to use a bag with a nozzle in order to force (icing or cream, etc from the bag) into long strings for decorating a cake, dessert, etc; b to make (designs, etc) on a cake, etc by this means. 7 computing to direct (the output of one program) into another program as its input in order to increase the speed of execution. 8 hortic to propagate by using pipings (see piping noun 5). pipeless adj. pipe-like adj. put that in your pipe and smoke it colloq used dismissively in speech to emphasize and conclude some unwelcome statement, criticism, etc: think about that and see how you like it!
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon: from Latin pipare to chirp or play a pipe.

pipe² noun 1 a cask or butt of varying capacity, but usually about 105 gallons in Britain (equal to 126 US gallons), used for wine or oil. 2 a measure of this amount.
ETYMOLOGY: 14c: French, meaning 'cask'.