Meaning

noun a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

noun a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

noun a hollow cylindrical shape

originFrom 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…

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