piping

• It accounts even for that high-piping, artificial voice (a gypsy trait) that he assumed when speaking with those who were not his intimate friends, and which any sudden interest in the conversation would cause him to abandon in favour of his own deep, rich tones. —  The Life of George Borrow
• Dual piping is called purple piping, and McGlashin says he has a dream that every community west of the Mississippi will have a dual-plumbed system. —  KCBS Bay Area News
• The first section of piping which is forced down into the bore-hole is about 40 inches in diameter. —  From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
• The way in which the other characters staved off his piping was beyond all praise. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920
• Then, in another case, they might show a foot or two of that blessed boiler-piping which is always leaking, or splitting, or bursting, just when it shouldn't. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 2, 1890

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