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Definition of Tobacco pipe
1. Noun. A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco.
Terms within: Bowl, Pipe Bowl, Mouthpiece, Stem
Specialized synonyms: Briar, Briar Pipe, Calabash, Calabash Pipe, Calumet, Peace Pipe, Pipe Of Peace, Clay Pipe, Calean, Chicha, Hookah, Hubble-bubble, Hubbly-bubbly, Kalian, Narghile, Nargileh, Sheesha, Shisha, Water Pipe, Meerschaum
Generic synonyms: Tube, Tubing
Definition of Tobacco pipe
1. Noun. A small, hand-held device consisting in its simplest form of a bowl and stem; used for inhaling the smoke of burning tobacco. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tobacco Pipe
Literary usage of Tobacco pipe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Cresswell Cresswell (1828)
"The Master, Wardens, Assistants, and Fellowship of the Company of tobacco pipe
Makers of the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER, and Kingdom of ENGLAND and ..."
2. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Tobacco-pipe bowls of meerschaum, silver mounted and carved. ... A tobacco-pipe
of ivory. A cup of slug-horn. A large piece of amber. Amber necklaces. ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"tobacco pipe. See PIPE, TOBACCO. TOBAGO, an island of the Windward group of the
British West Indies, the N. point of which is in lat, 11° 25' N., Ion. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The term "church-warden" is also given to a long- stemmed clay tobacco-pipe
formerly much used in Great Britain. A famous "make" of this class of pipes is ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Among the North American Indian tribes the tobacco pipe occupies ... The introduction
of the tobacco pipe into Europe is generally ascribed to Ralph Lane, ..."
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