¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pipelike
1. resembling a pipe [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipelike
Literary usage of Pipelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Alaska by John Muir (1915)
"... some of them pouring in sheer falls over blue cliffs from narrow ice-valleys,
some spouting from pipelike channels in the solid front of the glacier, ..."
2. Geology of Petroleum by William Harvey Emmons (1921)
"Underground exploration has shown that this is the top of a pipelike body of
hydrothermally altered and indurated rock, lying above a thick dome of gabbro ..."
3. The Theory and Practice of Taxation by David Ames Wells (1900)
"The payments when made were entered into an account book, and from this transferred
to a strip of parchment; which last was sent through a pipelike opening ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1918)
"tain what may be described as tunnels dug through it with a pipelike appearance
at the ends. The Martian name for house, ..."
5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"In the native» oí N" Guinea we have almost generally the » head, sometimes
frizzled, and occasion'-'.' pipelike knots, the thick lips and ..."
Other Resources:
