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  1. noun A hollow cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.
  2. noun A section or piece of such a tube.
  3. noun A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English pīpe, from Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pīpāre, to chirp.

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  1. Also, in the orig. sense ‘chirp,’ peep (formerly also spelled piep) and pip; from Middle English pipen, pypen, = Dutch pijpen = Middle Low German pipen, Low German piepen, pipen = Middle High German phīfeu, pfīfen, German pfeifen, piepen, pipen = Swedish pipa = Danish pibe, pipe, peep, or chirp, as birds, from Old French piper, also pepier, French piper, pipier, pipe, peep, or chirp, as birds or as frogs, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare (Middle Latin also pipulare) = Greek πιπίζειν, chirp; imitative of the sound of chirping. In later uses the verb is from the noun. Cf. peep, pip.
  2. from Middle English pipe, pype, from Anglo-Saxon pīpe, a pipe, = OFries. pipe = Dutch pijp = Middle Low German pipe, Low German pipe = Old High German pfīfa, fīfa, Middle High German phīfe, pfīfe, German pfeife = Icelandic pīpa = Swedish pipa = Danish pibe = French pipe = Spanish Portuguese pipa = Italian pipa, piva, a pipe, from Middle Latin pipa, a pipe (in various uses); from the verb in the orig. sense ‘chirp,’ ‘peep,’ as a bird: see pipe, peep, v. In later uses the verb is from the noun, while again some later uses of the noun are from modern deflected uses of the verb. Cf. doublet fife.
 

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