The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived fromMiddle Englishpīpe(“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), frompīpe (above) andOld Frenchpipe(“liquid measure”).[2] In specific contexts,calques similar units of measure such asPortuguesepipa.
Oh, Danny boy, thepipes, thepipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side, The summer's gone and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.
For they ſhall yet belye thy happy yeeres, That ſay thou art a man:Dianas lip Is not more ſmooth, and rubious: thy ſmallpipe Is as the maidens organ, ſhrill, and ſound, And all is ſemblatiue a womans part.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliestpipe of half-awaken'd birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
2006, Richard M. Tanner, “Lockheed Tristar: Single-point Tanker”, inHistory of Air-to-air Refuelling, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Aviation,Pen & Sword Books,→ISBN, part 2 (Technology),page286, column 1:
A standard Flight Refuelling Ltd Mk 8 probe nozzle was attached to the probe structural tube and fuelpipe. Thepipe was double-walled, and passed through into the fuselage aft of the flight deck;[…] A non-return valve was fitted within the fuelpipe aft of the probe nozzle, thus preventing any leakage of fuel if the aircraft lost the probe nozzle inadvertently.
2000, Richard L. Valentineet al., “Chlorine and Monochloramine Decay in Batch and Loop Experiments”, inThe Role of the Pipe–Water Interface in DBP Formation and Disinfectant Loss, Iowa City, Ia.:University of Iowa,→ISBN,page115:
Corrosion control can be accomplished in distribution systems by adding compounds that form a protective film on thepipe surface, thereby providing a barrier between the water and thepipe.
Amongst thevessels of the human body, thepipe which conveys the saliva from the place where it is made, to the place where it is wanted, deserves to be reckoned amongst the most intelligible pieces of mechanism with which we are acquainted.
1808–10,William Hickey,Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 329:
Mr Barretto informed us he had shipped two hundred and fortypipes of Madeira [which] not only impeded the ship's progress by making her too deep in the water, but greatly increased her motion.
My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received apipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.
1882,James E[dwin] Thorold Rogers, “Weights and Measures”, inA History of Agriculture and Prices in England from the Year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the Commencement of the Continental War (1793)[…], volumesIV (1401–1582), Oxford: At theClarendon Press,→OCLC,page205:
Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, apipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31½ gallons, a rundlet 18½ gallons.
While thepipe of a conventional volcano may extend down 50 miles or so, the volcanicpipes that pick up diamonds along the way had to go much deeper, perhaps as deep as 300 miles.
2018,Tim Flannery,Europe: A Natural History, page54:
Some researchers think that the warming was caused as kimberlitepipes (volcanic vents originating deep in the Earth’s mantle) reached the surface near Lac de Gras in northern Canada and released huge amounts of carbon.
On Thursday Mr.William Bland, formerly a Surgeon in the Royal Navy,[…] was brought to trial on a charge of libelling the Governor [Lachlan Macquarie], by the composition and publishing of various letters and verses contained in a manuscript book dropped on the Parramatta Road—and thence brought to light.[…] [H]owever lenient the sentence passed upon this young man, yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his examplepipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. Wm. Cluer [an earthenware pipe maker] of the Brickfield Hill.
Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal-stove, made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked hispipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle—a club, or society, ofhabitués, who met every evening for apipe and a cheerful glass.
distance travelled between two rests during which one could smoke a pipe
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1605,R[ichard] V[erstegan], “Of the Antient Manner of Living of Ovr Saxon Ancestors.[…]”, inA Restitution of Decayed Intelligence: In Antiquities. Concerning the Most Noble and Renovvmed[sic – meaningRenovvned] English Nation.[…], printed at Antwerp: By Robert Bruney;[…][a]nd to be sold[…], by Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill,→OCLC; republished London: Printed by Iohn Bill,[…],1628,→OCLC,page85:
[T]hepide Piper with a ſhrill pipe wentpiping through the ſtreets, and forthwith the rats came all running out of the houſes in great numbers after him; all which hee led into the riuer ofWeaſer and therein drowned them.
Piping down the valleys wild /Piping songs of pleasant glee / On a cloud I saw a child. / And he laughing said to me /Pipe a song about a Lamb: / So Ipiped with merry chear. / Piperpipe that song again – / So Ipiped, he wept to hear.
[W]ith the mariners A fellow-mariner,—and so had fared Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear'd Among the mountains, and he in his heart Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas. Oft in thepiping shrouds had Leonard heard The tones of waterfalls, and inland sounds Of caves and trees:[…]
(intransitive) Of aqueen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
Our chimney was a square hole in the roof; it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing andpiping the eye.
2009, Susan Van Allen, “Churches Dedicated to Female Saints—Rome”, in100 Places in Italy Every Woman should Go, Palo Alto, Calif.: Travelers’ Tales, Solas House,→ISBN, section I (The Divine: Goddesses, Saints, and the Blessed Virgin Mary),page20:
Soft baroque musicpipes through the ornate, dripping-with-gold church sanctuary.
So I went and laid down on the grass. While laying there Ipiped a reeler whom I knew. He had a nark (a policeman's spy) with him. So I went and looked about for my two pals, and told them to look out for F. and his nark.
1914, Jackson Gregory,Under Handicap:
"Hey, Greek," Roger was saying, his droning voice coming unpleasantly into the other's musings, "did youpipe that? Did you ever see anything like her?"
1981, Elie Abel,What's News: The Media in American Society, page259:
[…] who ostensibly was handed an all-day sucker by a warm-hearted bandit in the act of robbing a candy store of $40, there was no moral outcry. "Find the girl," was the immediate response of competing editors to their reporters at police headquarters. The men of the press, who knew apiped story when they saw one, quickly found another little girl, presented her with a lollipop, and photographed her skipping rope in front of the candy store.
2004, Arthur Gelb,City Room, page154:
If there was a lull in criminal activity, reporters were not above "piping" a story.
2008, Homer L. Hall, Logan H. Aimone,High School Journalism, page91:
Reporters today supposedly do not use "piped" stories because they are unethical.
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