PIPE

A musical wind instrument, consisting of a tube with holes, like a flute or clarinet, 1Sa 10:5 1Ki 1:40 Isa 5:12 30:29 Jer 48:36 Mt 9:23. The double pipe had two tubes, uniting in the mouthpiece; the tube played with the left hand emitting a few deep sounds, and serving as a base. The Scotch Deputation of Inquiry speak of overtaking among the hills of Judea "an Arab playing with all his might upon a shepherd’s pipe made of two reeds. This was the first time we had seen any marks of joy in the land, for certainly ‘all joy in darkened, the mirth of the land is gone,’" Isa 24:11. See MUSIC.

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Pipe. Pipe
(1 Sam. 10:5; 1 Kings 1:40; Isa. 5:12; 30:29). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means “bored through,” and is the name given to various kinds of wind instruments, as the fife, flute, Pan-pipes, etc. In Amos 6:5 this word is rendered “instrument of music.” This instrument is mentioned also in the New Testament (Matt. 11:17; 1 Cor. 14:7). It is still used in Palestine, and is, as in ancient times, made of different materials, as reed, copper, bronze, etc.

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PIPE. → (A wind instrument of music) → Used in religious services 1Sa 10:5; Isa 30:29 → See MUSIC, INSTRUMENTS OF

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pipe. Pipe, n. a tube, musical instrument, a hogshead

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Pipe (?), n. [[AS. pīpe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife.]] 1. 1. 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. “Tunable as sylvan pipe.” Milton.
Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak. 2. 2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
3. 3. A small bowl with a hollow steam, — used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
4. 4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
5. 5. The key or sound of the voice. Shak.
6. 6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. Tennyson. 7. 7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
8. 8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
9. 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. 10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
11. 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. — 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 Pipe tongs, 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.