Word Meaning

piped definition and meaning

n. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
n. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
n. A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
n. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
n. The key or sound of the voice.
n. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
n. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
n. An elongated body or vein of ore.
n. 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.
n. A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
n. A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
v. i. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
v. i. To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
v. i. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
v. i. To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
v. t. To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
v. t. To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
v. t. To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
imp. & p. p. of Pipe
a. Formed with a pipe; having pipe or pipes; tubular.

Crossword clues for piped

- A tube
- Hollow cylinder
- Hose
- Instrument with smoke coming out one end
- Pip’s late dropping off last cylinder
- Smoker’s tube
- Smoking device
- Tube
- Conveyed by conduits
- Played a woodwind instrument
- Spoke out, ... up
- Wrote in icing