piper Definition

pipe¹
noun

1. A tubular conveyance for water, gas, oil, etc.

Thesaurus: tube, conduit, channel, passage, duct, pipeline, drainpipe, water pipe, aqueduct.
2a. A little bowl with a hollow stem for smoking tobacco, etc;
2b. A quantity of tobacco smoked in one of these.
3. A wind instrument consisting of a simple wooden or metal tube.

Thesaurus: wind instrument, flageolet, horn, tooter, whistle.
4. The bagpipes.

Form: the pipes
5. Any of the vertical metal tubes through which sound is produced on an organ.
6. A boatswain's whistle.
7. A pipe-like vent forming part of a volcano.
8. A cylindrical quantity of ore, etc.
9. old use
Any of the air passages in an animal's body.
Example: the windpipe

verb piped, piping

1. To convey (gas, water, oil, etc) through pipes.
tr & intr
2. To play on a pipe or the pipes.

Example: piped the same tune all evening
Thesaurus: play, sound, whistle, trill, warble.
3. To welcome or convey with music from a pipe or the bagpipes.

Example: piped in the haggis
Form: pipe someone in (also)
Form: pipe something in
tr & intr
4. Said of a child: to speak or say in a small shrill voice.
intr
5. To sing shrilly as a bird does.
6a. To use a bag with a nozzle in order to force (icing or cream, etc from the bag) into long strings for decorating a cake, dessert, etc;
6b. To make (designs, etc) on a cake, etc by this means.
7. computing.
To direct (the output of one program) into another program as its input in order to increase the speed of execution.
8. hortic.
To propagate by using pipings (see piping noun 5).

Derivative: pipeless
adj

Derivative: pipe-like
adj

Derivative: piper

See separate entry.

Idiom: put that in your pipe and smoke it

colloq
Used dismissively in speech to emphasize and conclude some unwelcome statement, criticism, etc: think about that and see how you like it!

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon: from Latin pipare to chirp or play a pipe.

Phrasal Verb: pipe down

To stop talking; to be quiet
Example: Will you please pipe down!

Phrasal Verb: pipe up

To speak unexpectedly, breaking a silence, etc.

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piper
noun

1. A player of a pipe or the bagpipes.