pipe

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   trim with piping

   pipe the skirt

2. 2
   verb

   play on a pipe

   pipe a tune

3. 3
   verb

   transport by pipeline

   pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert

4. 4
   noun

   Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

   Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side, The summer's gone and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.

5. 5
   noun

   Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

   A standard Flight Refuelling Ltd Mk 8 probe nozzle was attached to the probe structural tube and fuel pipe. The pipe was double-walled, and passed through into the fuselage aft of the flight deck; […] A non-return valve was fitted within the fuel pipe aft of the probe nozzle, thus preventing any leakage of fuel if the aircraft lost the probe nozzle inadvertently.

6. 6
   noun

   Meanings relating to a container.

   Meronym: pipestave

7. 7
   noun

   Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

   Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal-stove, made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.

8. 8
   noun

   A telephone.

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

Etymology

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife. The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine;…