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English : occupational name for a worker in lead, especially a maker of lead pipes and conduits, from Anglo-Norman French plom(m)er, plum(m)er ‘plumber’, from plom(b), plum(b) ‘lead’ (Latin plumbum).English : variant of Plumer 1, 3.English : occasionally, a habitational name from a minor place name, such as Plummers in Kimpton, Hertfordshire, which was named with Old English plum ‘plum(tree)’ + mere ‘pool’. The name is also established in Ireland, taken there from England in the 17th century.
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English : variant of or patronymic from Pipe.Greek (PipÄ“s) : from a pet form, Pipis, of the personal name SpyridÅn (see Spiro), borne by a bishop and saint venerated in the Eastern Church. He is the patron saint of Corfu.
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English (mainly southern), Dutch, and North German
English (mainly southern), Dutch, and North German : occupational name for a player on the pipes, Middle English pipere, Middle Dutch pi(j)per, Middle Low German piper.Translation of German Pfeiffer, or of the French secondary surname Lefifre.
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n.
A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
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An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.
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A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
v. t.
To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
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A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.
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A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles.
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The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
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A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reenforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.
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Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
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A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
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The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
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To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
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A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
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Having three pipes.
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A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
n. pl.
A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.
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A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite.
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In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.