meerschaum

Examples

• All

• He smoked a meerschaum stained yellow.

  Fiction book (1990)

• lt's a meerschaum pipe.

  National Treasure (2004)

• Liberty got up and went for the meerschaum pipe.

  Fiction book (1993)

• It was not a corncob but a heavy meerschaum, probably stolen from a father's study.

  Fiction book (1994)

• "I do not consider the investigation of such practices as Stilby-Nash hints at to be any sort of joking matter." Father Herrick produced a primed and loaded Meerschaum and sucked doggedly on the stem.

  Fiction book (1994)

• He took out his meerschaum pipe and filled it with aromatic tobacco before settling down to read.

• During the gathering, he proudly displayed his vintage meerschaum pipe, a treasured heirloom in his family.

• After a long day, he enjoyed relaxing with his meerschaum pipe, savoring the smooth smoke it produced.

Synonyms

P

pipe

vsmeerschaum

158 5.5

A small tube with a bowl for smoking tobacco

is the kind that uses a light porous white mineral for its bowl

T

tobacco pipe

vsmeerschaum

1 3.2

A small tube with a bowl that you use to smoke tobacco

is defined by having its bowl made from a light porous white mineral

C

clay pipe

vsmeerschaum

1 4.4

A small pipe for smoking tobacco made from baked clay

is made with its bowl from a light porous white mineral

C

chillum

vsmeerschaum

• NSFW

1 9.9

A straight cone-shaped pipe used for smoking, often in South Asia

focuses on a bowl made from light porous white mineral, not a straight conical form

Surface Forms

Etymology