Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tobacco-pipe tube, used with the Turkish chibouk, made of a young stem of the mahaleb cherry, bored and with the reddish-brown bark retained. Sometimes these stems are five feet long, and as straight and smooth as if turned.

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Examples

  • Two hooks on the western wall, hung jealously high up, hold a pair of pistols with handsome crimson cords and tassels, and half a dozen cherry-stick pipes.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • The tree has of late years been carefully described by many botanists; I will only say that the bark resembled in colour a cherry-stick pipe, the inside was a light yellow, and the juice made my fingers stick together.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • There were, and may be still, for aught we know, two splendid specimens in full blossom at the Rainbow Tavern in Fleet - street, who always used to sit in the box nearest the fireplace, and smoked long cherry-stick pipes which went under the table, with the bowls resting on the floor.

    Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

  • Then there was a semi-circular recess covered with red cloth, and fitted up for smoking, as you might perceive by sundry stands full of Turkish pipes in cherry-stick and jessamine, with amber mouthpieces; while a great serpent hookah, from which Frank could no more have smoked than he could have smoked out of the head of a boa constrictor, coiled itself up on the floor; over the chimney-piece was a collection of Moorish arms.

    My Novel — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Then there was a semi-circular recess covered with red cloth, and fitted up for smoking, as you might perceive by sundry stands full of Turkish pipes in cherry-stick and jessamine, with amber mouthpieces; while a great serpent hookah, from which Frank could no more have smoked than he could have smoked out of the head of a boa constrictor, coiled itself up on the floor; over the chimney-piece was a collection of Moorish arms.

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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