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Entry 18 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Pipe

/pīp/ · IPA /ˈpaɪp/
01 n. 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 she…
  1. 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.
    “Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.” — Shak.
  2. 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. 3.
    A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
  4. 4.
    A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
  5. 5.
    The key or sound of the voice.[R.]
  6. 6.
    The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
    “The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.” — Tennyson.
  7. 7.
    The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
  8. 8.
    An elongated body or vein of ore.(Mining)
  9. 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.
  10. 10.
    A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.(Naut.)
  11. 11.
    A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
Phrases & compounds
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.
Pipe tree — the lilac and the mock orange; -- so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; -- called also pipe privet.
Pipe wrench — 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.
02 v. i. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
  1. 1.
    To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
    “We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.” — Matt. xi. 17.
  2. 2.
    To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.(Naut.)
  3. 3.
    To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
  4. 4.
    To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.(Metal.)
03 v. t. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
imp. & p. p. Piped; p. pr. & vb. n. Piping
  1. 1.
    To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
    “A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes.” — W. Irving.
  2. 2.
    To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.(Naut.)
    “As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.” — Marryat.
  3. 3.
    To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.