| • | A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. |
| • | Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. |
| • | A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. |
| • | A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. |
| • | The key or sound of the voice. |
| • | The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. |
| • | The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. |
| • | An elongated body or vein of ore. |
| • | A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. |
| • | A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. |
| • | A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. |
| • | To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. |
| • | To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. |
| • | To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. |
| • | To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel. |
| • | To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. |
| • | To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle. |
| • | To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building. |
