Definition of Pipefuls

1. Noun. (plural of pipeful) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pipefuls

1. pipeful [n] - See also: pipeful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipefuls

pipeclays
pipecolic acid
pipecolinic acid
pipecuronium
pipecuronium bromide
piped
piped down
pipedream
pipedreams
pipefish
pipefishes
pipefitter
pipefitters
pipefitting
pipeful
pipefuls (current term)
pipelay
pipelayer
pipelayers
pipelaying
pipeless
pipelike
pipeline
pipeline company
pipelined
pipeliner
pipeliners
pipelines
pipelining
pipeman

Literary usage of Pipefuls

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cigars: Health Effects and Trends by Donald Shopland (1999)
"This comparison showed smokers of fewer than 5 cigars/pipefuls per day as not ... pipefuls per day have an OR of 3.2 (1.6-6.3) and smokers of 10 or more ..."

2. The History of Henry Fielding by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1918)
"As Fielding is reported to have taken but three days to produce some of his plays, he would be required to consume 186 pipefuls a day. ..."

3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1898)
"But if several more pipefuls are smoked, the tannin having taken up all the nicotine it is capable of neutralizing, the smoke will begin to pass out with ..."

4. Creation Myths of Primitive America in Relation to the Religious History and by Jeremiah Curtin (1898)
"He smoked out ten pipefuls, and then people said,— " I am afraid that the ... He smoked twenty more pipefuls, still he was not possessed; then twenty more, ..."

5. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1885)
"Has smoked six pipefuls daily for the past fifteen years ; health good. ... Has for four years past smoked six to seven pipefuls of tobacco daily, ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"pipefuls ; Hide and Seek. Benêt. Moons of Grandeur. Duganne. Prologue. We don't even pause to comment on the ..."

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