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 Whiskers curled in small, close ringlets.
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n. A penis. v. piped, piping, pipes To take a look at; notice.Phrasal Verbspipe down To stop talking; be quiet.lay (one's) pipe An act of sexual intercourse.
An order to halt a current activity or countermand an order prior to execution. Used for verbal orders, as in "Belay Last" and also for pipes as in "Belay Last Pipe".
Any kind of boots or shoes, but mostly applied to riding-boots.
stove pipes and/or lamp chimmeys
Pipes is British slang for the respiratory system.
Fiberglass insulation blankets commonly attached to pipes and ducts.
Hours between pipe down and calling the hands, only emergency pipes are made.
Very generic term for the entire Ship's Company. Usually used in pipes and announcements eg. "All hands muster on the Quarterdeck".
1. (RCN) In harbour, the Boatswain's Mate is part of the gangway staff, second to the Quartermaster and under the command of the Officer of the Day. He makes all pipes and assists the quartermaster. At sea, his post is on the bridge, under the command of the officer of the watch. Abbreviated "BM". 2. (USN) The occupational rating of boatswain's mate is a designation given to enlisted members who are rated as a deck seaman.
The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel, which on a warship usually contains a mass of ducts, pipes and wiring harneses.
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A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.
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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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The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
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A short right-angled pipe fitting, used in connecting two pipes at right angles.
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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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Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
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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.
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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 kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
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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.
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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 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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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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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.
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Having three pipes.
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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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A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.
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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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