9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the
Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king;
-- so called because put together like a pipe. Mozley & W.
10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their
duties; also, the sound of it.
11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. pipare to
chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or
126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an
engine or a building. -- Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an
elbow, a valve, etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as
accessory to a pipe. -- Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of
Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown
lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.] -- Pipe tree (Bot.), the lilac
and the mock orange; -- so called because their were formerly used to
make pipe stems; -- called also pipe privet. -- Pipe wrench, or
Pipetongs, a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it.
-- To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in token of
amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, -- a custom of the
American Indians.
Pipe, v. i. 1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind
instrument of music.
We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.
Matt. xi. 17.
2. (Naut.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe
or whistle carried by a boatswain.
3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. "Oft
in the piping shrouds." Wordsworth.
4. (Metal.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of
an ingot, as of steel.
Pipe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Piping.] 1. To
perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter
in the shrill tone of a pipe.
A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes.
W. Irving.