Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A case or box lined with soft material to protect a valuable pipe when not in use.
- noun A similar cover for the bowl of a pipe to protect it from the fingers when in use, as when a meerschaum is being carefully colored, to keep the fingers from touching the bowl.
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Examples
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The pipe-case is connected with a tobacco-pouch, in which are also flint, steel and tinder.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Up to his little box of a room he climbed, found his pipe-case and tobacco-pouch, and in five minutes was strolling out to the point once more, when he came suddenly upon the night-watchman, -- a personage of whose functions and authority he was entirely ignorant.
From the Ranks Charles King 1888
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But it so happened that the pipe-case had been moved, and it was some minutes before I could find it.
A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta Guy Boothby 1886
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The pipe-case was made of a sort of black coral, curiously carved, and attached to the tabako-ire, or pouch, by a heavy cord of plaited silk of three colours, passed through a ball of transparent agate.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Seeing me admire it, he suddenly drew a knife from his sleeve, and before I could prevent him, severed the pipe-case from the pouch, and presented it to me.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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He drew from his girdle a remarkably beautiful tobacco-pouch and pipe-case, containing a little silver pipe, which he began to smoke.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Thereupon he draws from his girdle a Japanese pipe-case and tobacco-pouch combined; pulls out of the pipe-case a little brass pipe with a bowl scarcely large enough to hold a pea; pulls out of the pouch some tobacco so finely cut that it looks like hair, stuffs a tiny pellet of this preparation in the pipe, and begins to smoke.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Gager, before he answered, took a pipe-case out of his pocket, and lit the pipe.
The Eustace Diamonds 1873
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Gager, before he answered, took a pipe-case out of his pocket, and lit the pipe.
The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872
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The merchant at bay, on the verge of bankruptcy -- sometimes it is true -- who comes to entreat you to save his honour, with a pistol ready to shoot himself, bulging out the pocket of his overcoat -- sometimes it is only his pipe-case.
The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868
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