pipe bowl
- noun
- /paɪp boʊl/
:
cabeza de pipa
- After finishing his smoke, he cleaned the pipe bowl to prepare it for the next use.
Examples
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And the dean, who had fired the lot of them, Jerry too that year, pounded his pipe bowl on the table.
Fiction book (1994) -
He smoked cigars and a pipe, often stuffing the cigar stub into a pipe bowl to finish it.
Fiction book (1996) -
"The Reverend Eldred's fingers clenched more closely" round the carven face on his pipe bowl, the mask of some unnamed woodland grotesque from the German forests.
Fiction book (2000) -
He carefully packed the tobacco into the pipe bowl before lighting it.
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The old wooden pipe bowl had a beautiful, intricate design carved into it.
Synonyms
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The rounded part of a smoking pipe that holds tobacco
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound simply names a part–whole relation: the 'bowl' (hollow top) of a 'pipe', so the overall meaning is directly and literally built from the constituent words. Both terms are concrete and the noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows 'pipe' and 'bowl' will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun pipe bowl comes from the simple picture of a smoking pipe with a small bowl at the end that holds the tobacco. So the name means 'the round, open part of a tobacco pipe that holds the tobacco'.