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Word Origin & History

Old English pipe "musical wind instrument," also "tube to convey water," from Vulgar Latin *pipa "a pipe, tube-shaped musical instrument" (source of Italian pipa, French pipe, Old Frisian pipe, German Pfeife, Danish pibe, Swedish pipa, Dutch pijp), a back-formation from Latin pipare "to chirp or peep," of imitative origin. All tubular senses ultimately derive from "small reed, whistle." Meaning "device for smoking" first recorded 1590s. Pipe-bomb attested from 1960. Pipe-cleaner recorded from 1863.

Example Sentences for piping

How strange it was that no birds were piping in the trees over the wall.

For them, there were no “weak, piping times of peace,”––no respite from danger.

Sweet the piping of him who sat upon the rocks and fluted to the morning sea.

Hark, I hear the piping of the shepherd and the tinkling bell of the wether.

Do not be content with ordinary measures; these are no piping times of peace.

This was the piping of a few birds now and again in the most unlikely places.

Who would have thought that Piping WillCould be so great a king?

She laughed to think that Piping WillShould be so great a king.

If the god Whim was piping, she could follow to the world's end.

They had but to pay, Mr. O'Meagher did all the piping and all the dancing too.

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