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Meanings relating to a wind instrument..

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1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
2. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
3. Meanings relating to a container.
4. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
5. Meanings relating to computing.
6. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
7. (slang) A telephone.
8. (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

Example Sentences

“Let's try to get on the pipe to Admiral Collier again.”

[T]he pide Piper with a ſhrill pipe went piping through the ſtreets, and forthwith the rats came all running out of the houſes in great numbers after him; all which hee led into the riuer of Weaſer and therein drowned them.

Piping down the valleys wild / Piping songs of pleasant glee / On a cloud I saw a child. / And he laughing said to me / Pipe a song about a Lamb: / So I piped with merry chear. / Piper pipe that song again – / So I piped, he wept to hear.

"Ar—cher—Ja—cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed.

[W]ith the mariners A fellow-mariner,—and so had fared Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd Among the mountains, and he in his heart Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas. Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds Of caves and trees: […]

Our chimney was a square hole in the roof; it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.

Soft baroque music pipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.

We can just pipe the output of our command into sed to get rid of any leading whitespaces.

Word Forms

• pipes
• piping
• piped

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