Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wooden tube used as the stem of a tobacco-pipe.
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Examples
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I ventured laughingly to institute a comparison between the length of his person and the pipe-stick, when he threw it upon the ground, and stared at me fixedly with flaming eyes and features distorted by anger.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Being of course hated by his fellow servants, the renegade at last fell into disgrace, and exchanging the pipe-stick for the hatchet, he became a hewer of wood.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Travellers would do well to remember, that in these lands the pipe-stick and the slipper disgrace a man, whereas
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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We went thence through the place where wax candles are sold, to the pipe-stick bazaar, where I intended to be a purchaser both of amber and cherry sticks.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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We passed through the pipe-stick bazaar, situated in an open street: on one side of which, pipe-sticks and amber mouth-pieces are exposed to sale; the other being almost entirely occupied by turners, who work with extraordinary neatness, considering the imperfect nature of their tools.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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Every Turk, and indeed every inhabitant of Stamboul, carries about his person a square bag, either of cachemire ornamented with embroidery, or of common silk, in which he keeps a supply of tobacco; and as the coffee-house supplies him with a pipe-stick and pipe gratis, he pays only for the cup of coffee which accompanies it.
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo
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To beat with shoe, slipper, or pipe-stick is most insulting; the idea, I believe, being that these articles are not made, like the rod and the whip, for coporal chastisement, and are therefore used by way of slight.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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[FN#197] Striking with the shoe, the pipe-stick and similar articles is highly insulting, because they are not made, like whips and scourges, for such purpose.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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George said nothing, but sat sucking the mouth-piece of his pipe-stick and blowing out great clouds of smoke.
The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848
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197 Striking with the shoe, the pipe-stick and similar articles is highly insulting, because they are not made, like whips and scourges, for such purpose.
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