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pipe

Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

Etymology:

  • From Middle English pīpe, pype, from Old English pīpe; the channel of a small stream, from Proto-Germanic *pīpǭ. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō, of imitative origin.
  • The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe, from pīpe and Old French pipe.
  • The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn, from Old English pīpian.
  • From verb piper
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At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. [ …] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Submitted on July 10, 2018

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